Seven human limbs were found during a routine clean-up operation at the Mirador del Norte Park, becoming the breaking news for Wednesday, 14 November 2018. The garbage was identified as contaminated hospital wastes in violation of all health protocols. Why was it dumped in the park remains unknown.
Some seven human limbs were identified by epidemiologist Jose Agustin Sehouerer. They were in state of decomposition in plastic bags and were found near door No. 5 of the Parque Mirador Norte in Santo Domingo Norte.
“This is serious because it reflects a violation of all sanitary laws in our country,” said the physician. He said it also reflects structural weakness of where the amputations were carried out because all the public and private hospitals have an epidemiological protocol that regulates and control surgical procedures. The organs and limbs should have been taken to an incinerator. But he explained that in some cases these are buried and others irresponsibly put the wastes in plastic bags and deposit these as solid wastes to be picked up by the waste trucks and taken to the municipal dumps. But he said what happens is that the human wastes when they decompose into highly contaminating bacteria and microbes. He called for more sanitary controls on behalf of the authorities.
“This is irresponsibility and shows very little epidemiological surveillance,” he said. He called for more controls by the Ministry of Public Health.
The bags have the logo of the Hospital Salvador B. Gautier. Hospital director Franklin Gomez says an investigation is underway. He said the hospital has a contract with a funeral home for the burial of biological wastes and with a transport company for material that would be incinerated.
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Listin Diario
El Dia
15 November 2018
