Saturday, 3 October 2009

Deadly garbage

Deadly garbage


Mushfique Wadud roams hospitals and pathological centres in the city to investigate the medical waste management procedures adopted in these institutions and talks to experts regarding the risk posed to public health by the haphazard disposal of medical wastes


photo by Prito Reza
An air of uncertainty, even bordering on panic, surrounded onlookers as they caught the rather grotesque sight of a human body-part, floating past them on the Dhanmondi Lake, on July 5. After an autopsy, the Dhanmondi Thana police declared that the body-part in question was a woman’s and was highly infectious.