LARKANA: Director General (DG), Health Services, Sindh. Dr Irshad Ali Memon, accompanied by WHO Country Head Dr. Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala, inaugurated the incinerator installed at the Rural Health Centre (RHC), Naundero, Monday, for proper destruction of hazardous medical waste which will also reduce pollution and infection of various deadly diseases. The incinerator has the capacity of disposing of 20 kg per hour.
Dr Muhammad Sharif Pirzado, Medical Superintendent, RHC, Naundero, told this scribe that entire hospital waste will now be properly disposed off through the incinerator which will burn 20 kg hospital waste and then it will be put off for two hours adding this process will continue till the entire waste is safely burnt to ashes. He said it will be very helpful in preventing spreading of various dreaded and killer diseases.
It must be mentioned here that a lot of HIV positive cases have so far surfaced in Ratodero, Naundero and Larkana since the 2019 outbreak in Ratodero among children which were alleged to the reuse of disposable syringes and most among them are a large number of male and female kids under 13 years.
Later, the DG went to attend a workshop organized by the WHO at Shaikh Zayed Hospital for Women in Larkana for training of medics and paramedics about treatment of HIV cases. WHO has been contributing machineries and instruments for patients’ safety and to improve services to the ailing populace but Sindh government is yet to remove junior officers of BPS-19 who are still looking after the charge of BPS-20 posts on the notorious OPS system in sheer violation of recent Sindh High Court order, to establish good governance in the province.