A south Wales hospital has set up a private firm to market the maggots it produces as a treatment for wounds which will not heal. Experts at a unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend said work had “snowballed” and they were providing maggots to hospitals across the UK. Up to 20,000 patients have been treated with the sterile larvae of the green bottle fly since the mid 1990s. The company is the first in Wales to be created by a NHS hospital trust.
