War veteran's ears chewed by mice in Qld nursing home
Staff writers and AAP
April 30, 2009
THE daughter of a war hero attacked by mice as he lay bed-ridden in a nursing home has spoken out about the incident that could have killed her father.
The woman, who did not want to be named, said staff at the Karingal Residential Aged Care Facility in the Queensland town of Dalby called her the day after Anzac Day to tell her that mice had gnawed at her 89-year-old father the night before.
The man was one of two residents at the nursing home attacked by mice over the weekend.
Queensland Health has rostered on extra staff and pest control agents since the weekend to kill mice at the home.
Federal Ageing Minister Justine Elliott said she was disturbed by the report of the elderly man's ordeal, but there was no need to evacuate residents at the home.
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