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Patients mixing up COVID-19 waste
Patients mixing up COVID-19 waste
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Apr 16, 2021, 06:00 IST
Remove red stickers showing health status; fail to segregate and sanitise garbage, endangering hundreds of sanitary staff
Patients in home isolation in many parts of the city are not only tearing the red stickers on their doors indicating the COVID-positive status, but are also not segregating and sanitising their garbage thus endangering lives of hundreds of sanitary staff that collects general and home medical waste from their doorsteps daily.
The sanitary staff of the
Pune Municipal Corporation (
PMC) is now protesting against the mixing up of bio-waste with general garbage from COVID-positive households. As a result, unaware about the category of the waste, the staff is collecting and mixing the infected waste with others.
Peth Shop Owners Install A Spittoon To Shame Culprits
Peth Shop Owners Install A Spittoon To Shame Culprits
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Jan 18, 2021, 06:00 IST
Tall steel basin with self-cleaning apparatus placed in designated
Mangalwar Peth spot to prevent public spitting sees good response from passers-by, especially with sarcastic signboard attached
In 2020,
Pune Municipal Corporation (
PMC) bounced bank somewhat in the Swachh Survekshan ranking of cleanest cities in India, with Pune bagging 15th position a notable improvement from the previous year’s 37th position. But ranking amongst the top 10 cities remains a distant dream for the city, in no small part due to lax efforts of the authorities, but also in equal measure thanks to the attitude of its