【Rat infestation is serious!】 Hong Kong catches 1 rat for 10,000 yuan?! 】
Hong Kong is very fond of calculating inputs and outputs, and recently a survey result was published by the media, and it turned out that it cost more than 10,000 yuan to catch a rat in Hong Kong. Last year, the Hong Kong government invested more than HK$700 million in public funds for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department's pest and rat control work, a new high in the past five years. Only 67,182 dead rats were collected and only 67,182 live rats were captured during the year, or the average cost per mouse was $10,880. As soon as this figure was exposed by the media, it immediately caused an uproar among netizens, who talked about why Hong Kong would be worth ten thousand dollars with a "rat"?
Let's take a look at how serious the rat infestation problem is in Hong Kong! Last month, Hong Kong Mobil New Estate was exposed to "rats all over the field", and the horror situation made people's scalps tingle!
Earlier, a number of residents of Mobil New Estate complained that rats were often infested, and some people even photographed more than a dozen rats gathering at a window at night.
A neighbor said there were at least hundreds of rats hidden in the house, and the problem had been plagued for more than 3 months without improvement. The investigation found that the owner of the house was an elderly man in his 70s, but basically did not live there. In the middle of last year, the house caught fire, and firefighters found rat carcasses, suspecting that the fire was caused by rats biting down the wires.
Subsequently, a large number of FEHD personnel wearing protective clothing broke into the door with multiple rat cages with the consent of the court, and it took two hours to deal with the rat infestation in the house before the incident was temporarily closed.
In February this year, a Hong Kong netizen posted a video: in the Paragon Supermarket in Fu Rong Garden, Tai Kok Tsui, a rat is unscrupulously "eating" frozen meat in a refrigerated cabinet!
After a restaurant in Tsing Yi City closed its doors, it immediately became a "rat paradise" where more than 10 fat rats roamed around the restaurant, and even more rats ran to the seats, or climbed on the trolley, or even placed dishes on the plate, the scene was terrifying!
In the underground squirrel shop in Tuen Mun Times Square, rats stand on chopping boards and "run amok".
The back alley of No. 43 Texaco Road in Tsuen Wan is full of kitchen waste and other garbage, attracting a group of rats to eat.
At the entrance of a shop, the meat delivered in the early morning was eaten by a large group of rats, and then the meat was sold to the public.
Public hospitals were not spared!
A male staff member of Mary Hospital broke the news, pointing out that there were rats running around during the day at the rear staircase elevator of the cardiothoracic surgery ward (female) on the 5th floor of the hospital's main hospital.
It is worth noting that in 2018, the world's first human case of rat hepatitis E was detected in Hong Kong, and 15 cases were recorded in Hong Kong last year, while only 16 cases were reported worldwide.
On May 13 this year, the Department of Health announced that it was investigating a case of human infection with rat hepatitis E, involving a 55-year-old man living in Wai Tau Village, Tai Po, who had developed liver dysfunction during treatment at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
In addition to this case, a total of 16 cases of human infection with rat hepatitis E have been recorded in Hong Kong so far.
The problem of rat infestation in Hong Kong is getting worse and worse, and spending is soaring year by year! However, there have been many complaints from rat infestations, and many people have questioned the authorities' ineffective control of rats, "Do you have to use so much money to catch rats?" ”
To some extent, the high cost of rat control in Hong Kong is related to the lack of advanced rat control techniques adopted by the authorities.
According to FEHD practice, rat poison is usually stocked and rattraps are set up in popular locations. But survival of the fittest, Hong Kong rats have long been familiar with this risk model, most of them can safely avoid, so that the authorities' work to control rats has not been effective.
There are also Hong Kong media reports that some frontline personnel have failed to use the poisonous rat bait correctly, including when using the poisonous rat bait, they have not marked the small holes in the packaging bags as a fragrance. However, some contractors said that rats would bite open the package on their own and eat rat bait....
It is reported that the relevant budget expenditure of the Hong Kong government this year will further increase to HK$751 million, of which the staffing of civil servants and outsourced staff will also increase accordingly.
The agency said that it would actively introduce new technologies and instruments to further improve the effectiveness of the prevention and control of insects and rats, and did not know how effective the rat control work would be this year.
