COCKROACHES are just occasional visitors to the kitchens at Blackburn hospitals, a health chief has revealed.
John Dell, operations director at the Blackburn NHS Trust, also said the catering departments were "relatively pest-free environments".
His comments came as environmental health officers and the trust's internal inspectors gave a clean bill of health to the food hygiene practices at Blackburn Infirmary and Queen's Park Hospital.
Mr Dell said cockroaches were not a regular sight in the kitchens. He said: "They appear very occasionally, not even weekly or monthly. We have had no outbreaks or any other worries.
"I have been in situations in the past when I could not have said that."
He said the annual food hygiene report had been "extremely satisfactory".
Trust chief executive John Thomas said a tremendous amount of work went into food hygiene and he praised the work of catering staff.
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