{"id":410738,"date":"2025-09-09T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410738\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:19:11","slug":"update-on-hospitals-cockroach-infestation-as-kitchen-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410738\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on hospital’s cockroach infestation as kitchen closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The kitchen has been closed as a precaution as additional work is carried out\"ASingleton Hospital’s kitchen is again closed(Image: Richard Youle)<\/p>\n

A kitchen at a major Welsh hospital remains closed, more than two months after a cockroach infestation was first reported. The facility at Singleton Hospital was initially shut at the end of June when insects were discovered in the “undercroft” area.<\/p>\n

Since then, further reports have suggested cockroaches were also found in the ceiling above the freezer and cold storage areas. We understand that items have been thrown away as a precaution.<\/p>\n

Swansea<\/a> Bay Health Board has confirmed the kitchen has been temporarily closed while additional treatment work is carried out. No date for the reopening has been given.<\/p>\n

Despite the closure, the health board stressed that patient meals have not been affected.<\/p>\n

In July, we reported that food production and catering staff have been moved<\/a> to the kitchen at Morriston, Swansea’s largest hospital, as the health board “worked hard to eradicate to infestation.”<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the health board also confirmed at the time, that no clinical areas had been affected by the infestation.<\/p>\n

The health board said only food that is produced off-site or purchased from alternative suppliers was being used.<\/p>\n

All food produced at the hospital prior to the infestation and stored in freezers was discarded as a precaution.<\/p>\n

The health board said it was “working hard to eradicate the infestation”.<\/p>\n

The dining room and coffee shop at Singleton also remained open. Never miss a Swansea story by signing up to our newsletter here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In an updated statement about the latest closure, a spokesperson from Swansea Bay Health Board said: “In line with expert advice, we have once again temporarily suspended production in the Singleton Hospital kitchen while further treatment is undertaken.<\/p>\n

“Patient meals continue to be provided by an external supplier, and on-site caf\u00e9s remain open.”<\/p>\n

We have approached Swansea council, which has responsibility for environmental health in the city, for comment.<\/p>\n

In July, they confirmed that they were “aware of the issue at Singleton Hospital and the work that is taking place to address it”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The kitchen has been closed as a precaution as additional work is carried outSingleton Hospital’s kitchen is again…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,141274,1148,14701,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-410738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-singleton-hospital","11":"tag-swansea","12":"tag-swansea-council","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115175015695191367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}