Bedbug Incident At Kings County Hospital

MYFOXNY.COM - A triage room at the Kings County Hospital in the East Flatbush area of Brooklyn was shut down Monday morning because of a bedbug outbreak, according to the Wall Street Journal .

A spokeswoman at the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation said told the paper, ’last night a patient was brought to Kings County’s main Emergency Room. A bedbug was found, and as a precaution, the triage room in which the patient was seen was fumigated. Kings County Hospital has several triage rooms, and medical personnel continued to see other patients in other triage rooms. At no time were patients being triaged in the hallway.’

’There is no infestation. We are talking about one patient,’ said the spokeswoman. The triage room, which is not part of emergency room waiting area, was reopened by midday Monday.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said that ’The presence of a few bedbugs...are rarely indicative of an infestation that results in people being bit or bedbugs being spread.’

The 627 bed facility is one of 6 city hospitals in Brooklyn.