If there is sewage odor in the building, no matter who owns it, needs to install a new HVAC system with high rates of 'air exchange.'
The higher pressure in the building will help to force the fouled air back where it belongs. Most of these buildings are older that have this problem and there many in the USA that do not have modernized air quality systems.
Now, if there is actually leaks of sewage into the building that is a good reason to shut down at least part of the building until structural changes can be instituted. Direct contact with sewage returns e. coli (click here) as an infective bacteria into the hospital's nosocomial concerns. The first question with e. coli is; how many illnesses, infected wounds and how many deaths occurred because of contact with actual sewage into the building.
April 2, 2018
By Jayne O'Donnell
"A black, grainy foul-smelling substance" coated the floor (click here) of an operating room at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, which also suffered from at least one "active leak" of sewage, according to a review by the District of Columbia health department last August.
That health department report was cited in a lawsuit filed against the hospital by the husband of a woman who died from a post-operative infection after surgery at the hospital, where the operating rooms had suffered from leaks of bacteria-filled sewage for months....
Enough. This should not be an issue at all. Congress is at fault here. There isn't enough monies in the VA system to address infrastructure problems.
