Subway employees, terrorized by bed bugs. Metrorex management is accused of not taking action
Metrorex employees sound the alarm about an invasion of bed bugs that have invaded the train drivers' bedrooms. They say that despite complaints, the situation has not been remedied.
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The problems were reported by Metrorex employees. According to several images sent by them, bedbugs roam freely in the locomotive drivers' bedrooms.
For fear of these insects, the train drivers started to bring their mattresses from home and take refuge in a room intended for classes, writes clubferoviar.ro.
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According to them, the situation has been going on for several months already. Although employees complained repeatedly, Metrorex management did not take action to resolve the issue.
“For over a year we've been making addresses, they come, sprinkle a little, and they multiply, I'm afraid because in Valea Ialomiţi everything has to be thrown away! They don't want to hire a special company for financial reasons, and here we are! At STB, they included disinsection in the sanitation program”reported a Metrorex employee.
According to the mechanics, the depot at Valea Ialomiței on highway 5 is affected, where the bedbugs have made their nest including behind the door frames, but they are also found in the seats in the train control stations.
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At the beginning of this month, the employees even sent a request to the management, in which they ask for disinfestation.
“Considering the event report (…) we maintain our point of view regarding the proposals to remedy the existing situation, respectively (…) the urgent organization of a procurement procedure for the provision of disinsection services intended to eradicate bed bugs (to be carried out by a company specialized in the eradication of these insects)”the request states.
The situation at Metrorex is not an isolated one. In April, CFR Călători withdrew a carriage of the Regio 2029 Timișoara Nord–Arad train from circulation, after a passenger discovered a colony of bedbugs between the seats.
At the end of last year, a 24-year-old woman complained that she was bitten by bedbugs during a trip on the Bucharest-Sighet train. She woke up during the night with her arms and legs covered in bites, finding the bugs both in the bed and on the linen in the compartment, forcing her to spend the rest of her journey in the aisle.
