Pakistan, Dec. 4 -- Medical waste in metropolis being disposed of unsafely, with most of it being thrown away with normal garbage and being sold as well; the appropriate disposal of medical waste has been a challenging matter since a long time.

Daily Times learnt that in very few hospitals, medical waste is recycled by an organized way and being handed over to waste management companies but in so many hospitals it is being sold through sanitary workers and other management staff; as many hospitals have no standard procedures to treat the waste.

It was learnt that the Sindh Health Department and Sindh Environmental Protection have failed to tackle the situation and could not stop to the practice of burning and selling medical waste of pr...