Shock report into Italian hospitals

Rats in Naples and cats in Milan, unlicensed nurses and expired medicine are among the horrors that emerged from nationwide police inspections of Italian hospitals that left more than 100 people facing possible investigation, health officials said Thursday.

Special health units from the Carabinieri paramilitary police inspected 321 of Italy’s 672 public medical centres this week, reporting limited but often shocking instances of poor hygiene, officials said at a news conference at the Health Ministry in Rome.