By Noor Ali Wazir
Dera Ismail Khan: Hospitals disposal of used equipment and waste according to regular and medical rules and regulations is not implemented, nor do most hospitals have a system to dispose of this waste.Actions are not taken to prevent the practice of re-usability of goods but no satisfactory situation. The health department fails to implement the relevant laws.
According to the details, used syringes, drips, urine bags, blood bags and other used waste are dropped daily outside the major hospitals of the district.Sometimes, garbage collectors reach the various hospitals and intersections of Dera Ismail Khan for operating patients to pick up the disease-spreading medical waste, however, they carry their belongings.
According to sources, the same medical waste is sold by big junk dealers.It is designed to make many things reusable.
According to data, on a daily basis, a government hospital generates about half to four kilograms of waste per bed, while private hospitals generate about half a kilogram to two kilograms of waste.
There is a procedure and law for disposal of medical waste in Pakistan, including all over the world, but in Dera Ismail Khan, this law has become obsolete and is not being implemented.
There are more than 30 government and non-government hospitals across Dera Ismail Khan where operations are conducted on a daily basis but only 2 hospitals Mufti Mehmood Hospital and Khyber Hospital have medical waste disposal system, rest of the hospitals have no proper medical waste disposal system.
Dr. Farrukh Jameel, Director of District Headquarter Hospital, when told about the disposal of medical waste, at a distance of about 7 km from the city, Mufti Mahmood Teaching Hospital has a waste disposal plant, but they did not have any means to take the waste there, due to which the garbage used to be placed at the intersections or somewhere on the side, but now soon small vehicles will reach the hospital to pick up the waste.
Through which they will take the medical waste to Mufti Mehmood Hospital and dispose of it there in a safe manner
Abdul Rahman Wazir, associated with the health department, said that we have installed an incine rater in Khyber Hospital where medical waste is disposed of in a safe manner.
He said that we have offered to other hospitals but no one is ready to bring medical waste there, He said that the administration should also be strict in this regard.
Dr. Idrees Bettani says that it is dangerous to leave medical waste on such roads, which poses the risk of spreading many diseases.
He said that hospitals have all kinds of patients, including AIDS, jaundice and TB, which are easily transmitted to each other.
In such a case, it is very harmful to throw the used syringes or the organ removed from the patient during operation.
Shahzoor Khan, a resident of Dera Ismail Khan, says that this garbage is thrown in front of his shop on a daily basis. in such cases, domesticated dogs and birds of prey make it their food. This litter also includes the discarded parts of human organs and they are found lying on the road.
He said that it has also happened that the piece of appendix removed after the operation slipped from the foot of a bird flying in the air and fell on its head.
He said that the government and the relevant departments should pay full attention to this to prevent the spread of epidemic and deadly diseases.
