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Tuesday, June 15, 1999 Published at 16:39 GMT 17:39 UK
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Hospital pyjama mystery
Getting to the bottom of the pyjamas mystery....
Bemused hospital bosses have launched a public appeal after hundreds of pairs of men's pyjama bottoms went walkabout from the stores.
Staff say that over the last six months 600 pairs have vanished from the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, a suburb of Belfast.
The mysterious disappearance is costing £1,000 per month to the cash-strapped hospital.
![[ image: Maybe not Armani - but still popular among pyjama lovers]](/olmedia/365000/images/_369862_brand150.jpg) |
| Maybe not Armani - but still popular among pyjama lovers |
The hospital chiefs are puzzled as to why anybody would want to take the trousers which come in just one shade of grey, and two sizes - large and extra large.
"We don't believe that patients take them home deliberately, they just pack them with all their other belongings when they're leaving the hospital," said the hospital's Manufacturing Services Manager, Beverly Mann.
Ms Mann revealed that hospital staff have to organise a reconnaissance mission each morning to find spare pyjamas and patients sometime had to make do with paper gowns.
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