An 81-year-old with bed bug bites all over his legs, is still waiting for help to arrive, more than two weeks after he first complained.

Gerry Woolner, who lives in an Oxford Street apartment, called the London and Middlesex Housing Corporation on March 8 about the bugs, but hasn’t received treatment for his unit yet.

Inside his apartment, bed bugs are everywhere.  

“Anywhere you look, in the bedroom, on the bed, on the sink, on the bathtub and on the floor,” he says.

Woolner is a stroke victim who has been living in his apartment for more than 20 years. He called LMHC as soon as he started noticing the pests.

I just can’t put up with this. There’s no (excuse), taking this long to do something,” he says.

Doug Reycraft, the chairperson of the housing corporation, agrees it has taken longer than normal to address.

“But we have dealt with it - once we learned of the problem - as quickly as we possibly could.”

But he says Woolner shouldn’t have to wait much longer. The pest control service is slated to get to work on his apartment by Thursday.  

“We expect by tomorrow evening, that treatment will be completed and the gentleman should be back in his own apartment and it should be bed bug free,” Reycraft says.