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# Ew, It’s Raining Maggots!
- URL: https://goodoil.news/ew-its-raining-maggots/
- Published: 2026-01-26T00:00:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-26T00:00:12.000Z
- Description: This is nightmare fuel.
- Author: Lushington Brady
- Tags: AUS Politics, Health

Well, here’s one that would send your correspondent screaming for a padded cell.

> [A Hunter hospital](https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/9156162/crisis-at-calvary-mater-hospital-as-maggots-force-ward-closure/?ref=goodoil.news) has been thrust into crisis after being forced to close its second ward in less than a month following maggots falling onto patients from the air conditioning vents.

I don’t know about the rest of you *Good Oil* readers, but maggots are a particular horror of mine. If O’Brien wanted to break me in Room 101, forget the rats: maggots would have me vowing that two plus two is five, in seconds.

> On Monday, the Calvary Mater Hospital declared a Code Yellow – or an internal emergency – following the discovery the maggots had fallen from the ceiling vents of the inpatient haematology ward, also known as ward 5C.  
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> It’s understood the maggots were first noticed last Tuesday, January 13.  
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> However, on Monday the situation escalated when maggots fell onto patients in their beds and the decision was made to close the ward.

So, how the hell did it start raining maggots?

> Flies have been known to lay their eggs in mould infestations, as the growth breaks down organic waste and creates a nutrient-rich environment for maggots.  
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> A spokesperson for NSW Health Minister **Ryan Park** said his office had “sought urgent advice from NSW Health and the local health district on this matter”.  
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> A Hunter New England Health spokesperson apologised to impacted patients, saying their relocation would allow specialist pest controllers access to the affected areas. “The affected four-bed room, where pests were discovered today was vacated immediately and sealed off,” they said.

Recently, a patient in a mental health hospital in Launceston was found with maggot-infested wounds. A similar incident happened in NSW in 2019.

> [A regional](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-12/maggots-found-in-residents-head-wound-at-bupa-facility/10893240?ref=goodoil.news) New South Wales aged care facility is facing further sanctions after a resident was admitted to hospital with maggots in his head wound.  
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> The man, a resident of a residential aged care facility in Eden on the NSW south coast, was taken to hospital this week after the discovery.  
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> He is undergoing treatment.

And in the UK in 2005:

> [A woman found maggots](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/dec/20/hospitals.health?ref=goodoil.news) wriggling on her dying mother’s face while she was treated in a hospital’s intensive care unit, it emerged yesterday. **Nyree Ellison** **Anjos** spotted the fly larvae near a feeding tube at the Gloucestershire Royal hospital. Her mother, **Christine Ellison**, died soon after.  
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> Her daughter spoke out yesterday after learning that another part of the hospital had to be fumigated when maggots were found on a sandwich. Mrs **Ellison Anjos**, from Robinswood, Gloucester, said she noticed that her mother seemed uncomfortable and kept touching her nose. She said: “She had a tube inserted in her nose and I saw something. It was yellow and it was wriggling. There was a big black fly buzzing around.”

Indeed, according to [this Reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1ekr9nu/how%5Foften%5Fdo%5Fyou%5Fhave%5Fto%5Fdeal%5Fwith%5Fmaggots/?ref=goodoil.news), it seems maggot-related problems are more common than I’d like to think about in hospitals.

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