A major clean-up operation was launched after pigeons were found inside a Scots hospital.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed that a waiting room in the Vale of Leven Hospital in Alexandria, near Dumbarton, underwent a “thorough clean” to remove the birds.
They gained access through a window left open by a member of staff.
Pigeon filmed INSIDE scandal hit Glasgow hospital where three died after contracting infections
Health board bosses insisted they responded “immediately” on receiving the report.
It follows two cases of cryptococcus – a rare fungal infection linked to pigeon droppings – at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow earlier this year, which claimed the lives of a 10-year-old boy and a 73-year-old woman.
