Ticking Time Bomb: Used PPE Kits Are Being Discarded In The Open

Used PPE kits discarded at RBANMS ground near Commercial Street. Recently, this ground was used to station BBMP's ambulances that carry COVID-19 patients.

Used PPE dumped beside Red Road Maidan in Kolkata.

Used full-body hazmat suits were scattered on a road in Nagawara posing health risks to the public.?

Used PPE kits found thrown on the roadside at Hebbal in Bangalore.

Used PPE kit dumped outside the residence of RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav at strand road in Patna.

Used protective kit dumped in the open at Shaheed Pir Ali Khan Marg in Patna.

A boy plays with used disposable gloves at a school under a metro bridge in East Delhi.

A dog pulls out a used PPE kit from the COVID Care centre at CODISSIA in Coimbatore.

Used PPE kits dumped on the busy Ring Road in Delhi. These used kits should be treated as biohazard items, as per a recent report published in a media outlet, more than 200 scientists from 32 nations have penned down a letter to the World Health Organization, claiming that there is growing evidence to consider that the virus may linger in the air in the form of smaller droplets.?

Medical waste and used PPE kits lie outside a roadside dustbin in Patna.