Family's horror as they spot RAT in hospital where grandfather, 82, was dying of cancer

The family of an elderly man who was dying of cancer has criticised the hospital he was staying at after a huge rat was found metres from his bedside.
Grandfather John Higgins, 82, repeatedly told his family and friends he could see a rat in the light fitting close to an air vent on his ward at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, Kent.
His son, Robert Langstead, 50, put the sightings down to hallucinations due to the amount of medication his terminally ill dad was on.
 
But while on a visit to the grandfather-of-six on July 15, Mr Langstead spotted the rat as it scurried along a window sill in a waiting room.
Whilst walking out of the hospital he spotted another rodent on some stairs and took a picture of it on his mobile phone.

Mr Langstead, from Rochester, Kent, said: ‘Dad was very ill and kept saying he could see rats in the light, but we just put that down to the strong drugs he had been put on.
‘We couldn’t believe it when we went into the waiting room and saw the rat on the window sill - my sister screamed.’
He added: ‘It’s disgusting a rat was inside the ward - dirty. The creatures could have crawled on him.
'They have six foot windows which open from the bottom about 18 inches off the ground.