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A Hong Kong public hospital has identified bedbugs, a tiny brown pest that feed mostly on human blood, on at least 10 beds, with four patients believed to have been bitten while hospitalised. A spokesperson for Kwai Chung Hospital (KCH) said in a statement on Tuesday that they had found bedbugs on a patient’s bed on Monday after the patient reported feeling itchy. Hospital staff inspected the ward and identified bedbugs in a sealed heating facility and on another nine beds. Thee more patients were thought to have been bitten by the pests. “KCH has provided appropriate treatment to the four pat…

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