Infectious waste from coronavirus patients worried deputy Matvienko

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During a meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Legislators, where the issue of disposal of medical waste was discussed, First Vice Speaker of the Federation Council Andrei Yatskin wondered where the masks, gloves, syringes should be put by those Russians who are being treated for coronavirus on an outpatient basis.

“Healthy people live in the same entrance with them, and there is no clarity,” the senator said. The deputy head of Rospotrebnadzor Mikhail Orlov, in response, recalled that the WHO has long recognized this kind of waste as not dangerous and not medical at all. The agency’s website has recommendations on how to deal with them, the official said. If you look at these recommendations, you can see: they boil down to the fact that masks and gloves must be properly removed and packed in a separate bag or wrapped in paper. And then you can throw it in the trash can.

But State Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya found the advice to look for information on the Rospotrebnadzor website insufficient: “When doctors bring free medicines to outpatients, they must simultaneously issue a reminder – how to behave correctly in order to ensure the safety of others.” Representatives of the Ministry of Health and Rospotrebnadzor did not comment on this proposal in any way.

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