>From my point of view, superbugs are also created when hospital waste is not >disposed of properly, preferably by inceneration. A few years ago, as I was >passing by the Asilo in Mapuçá, I could see bloodied bandages and other >hospital waste by the roadside. All it would take for a superbug to arise is >rotting dressings, discarded antibiotics and a few flies (which abound in that >part of the world). The flies could then sit on an open wound of a patient, >and probably infect that patient with a bug, resistant to antibiotics, or, >contaminate the patient's food with a resitant bug. If this is the "norm" in >Goa, you can imagine the conditions in areas surrounding India's capital >(which on my last visit there, are much worse than Goa's conditions of waste >disposal).
>________________________________ >From: Con Menezes <[email protected]> >To: Goanet <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2012 10:31 AM >Subject: [Goanet] Rise of the Superbugs - Four Corners > >The Superbugs as shown in the Indian hospitals. >http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/10/25/3618608.htm > > >
