A patient at Tuen Mun Hospital was found to have fly larvae in a wound on his neck, the second such case at the same hospital in about three months.
The bed-bound 62-year-old neurosurgery patient was found to have several maggots around the opening for his tracheostomy tube – a curved tube inserted into a hole made in the neck and windpipe – and left ear on September 24 and 25, a Hospital Authority spokesman said.
The wound was cleaned immediately, and the larvae were sent to the...
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