BEKASI, KOMPAS.TV – Medical waste suspected patient handling covid-19was found scattered in landfills, Batu Sumur TPA, Bantargebang, Bekasi City, West Java.
In addition to found masks and gloves, a pile of used drugs allegedly deliberately thrown by irresponsible people mixed with household waste.
Residents around TPA, Sumur Batu, Bantargebang are worried to see this pile of garbage. Masks, gloves and tissue, mixed with household rubbish heaps.
What makes them even more worried, if this is medical waste patient covid-19, in the form of a pile of used drugs, which collect in one place.
If collected, medical waste this, the amount can be up to three large sacks.
Some scavengers even claimed to have used syringes and used personal protective equipment for collection. Since covid-19 epidemic, this scene can be found everyday.
Head of Regional Technical Implementation Unit Batu Sumur TPA suspect, medical waste which is believed to be the patient’s former treatment corona it was deliberately discarded by irresponsible people.
The culprit is still being investigated. Although some of the waste has been transported, some are still piled up in zone four Batu Sumur TPA.
The lack of awareness to sort out medical waste, which actually falls into the category of toxic and hazardous waste, or B-3.
And the absence of special medical waste collection is suspected to be the cause of this waste scattered and joined with other household waste.
This condition, can be dangerous for residents around the landfill, scavengers to cleaning workers who work at this location.
Because medical waste, especially the former handling of the plague covid-19, should be processed first so that harmful pathogens and viruses can be lost before disposal.
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