A specialist ward at Bristol's new £60m Heart Institute has been closed for six weeks due to an infestation of flies.
The coronary care unit (CCU) was closed as a precaution in early August, and hospital officials are working to reopen in early October.
A blocked drain is being blamed, and experts have been drafted in to report on what caused the plug.
The facility is scheduled to treat more than 15,000 people annually and carry out up to five heart operations daily.
Institute boss Dr Peter Wilde said: "The decision was taken to move four patients from the CCU to a nearby ward as a result of a few flies buzzing around.
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