No end in sight for COVID19 as protective gear used by health workers are re-used in the Dandora dumping site.
As the government struggle to keep the positivity rate down, it should also find a way of disposing the masks and safety gears from hospitals around the country.
An ugly scene has been reported in Nairobi’s Dandora dumping site where unsuspecting Kenyans have been thronging the site to scavenge for protective gears. As dumping trucks make their way to the site, youth run to check the waste that is being dumped and after a few minutes, they come forth with protective safety gear which they immediately don without even washing them. This very act poses a grave danger to city dwellers who oblivious of the risk they are exposing themselves and the community to, just go about their business as if nothing bothers them.
Men wearing protective suit (PPE) found in the trash scavenge at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, Sunday, March 28, 2021.At the Dandora landfill in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi, some of the scavengers who are not eligible for a shot wear medical gear discarded by hospitals and health clinics, saying it especially protects them from the weather during the rainy season.We are struggling to feed our family any illness means visiting a drugstore, not a doctor, for medicine. Each day away from work is one without food on the table.
Sorry state of how medical facilities around the city dispose off covid 19 protective gear.
oblivious of the dangers posed…..
