Your staff correspondent's front-paged report on December 13 on our High Court raising the issue of fire hazard at hospitals and clinics of fire hazard at hospitals and clinics deals with important issue. However, along with fire hazard, safe disposal of infected waste materials by hospitals, clinics and pathological laboratories should also be dealt with. Both these matters are important to contain cross infection through carelessness or accidental mistakes. Proper procedures need to be established for fire protection as well as all clinical waste management . Once the procedures are established, health authorities must carry out routine inspections to ensure that these are properly followed. These are serious safety matters related to accidents by fire or accidental infection of innocent people by germs let loose along with hospital or clinic wastes. Our authorities should take up these important issues seriously and resolve it before something undesired happens, putting ordinary people's life at risk.
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