This was stated by Dean of Architecture and Management Sciences of the NED University of Engineering & Technology Prof Dr Noman Ahmed, in his keynote address at the National Waste Management Conference organised by the National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH) on Wednesday.
Dr Ahmed said the municipal workers and scavengers in the city were prone to deadly infectious diseases as they handled the hospital waste daily without any safety precautions, the same way municipal garbage was handled in Karachi.
He lamented that there was no check at all to stop scavengers from extracting useful and recyclable material from the hospital trash as the practice should come to an end to safeguard public health.
He said the hospital waste was quite often mixed with the regular municipal trash generated in the city, instead of the former’s disposal in a safe manner.
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