Young garbage pickers are more vulnerable of Hepatitis C, for they pick used syringes and other clinical waste from different public/ private hospitals of the city for recycling.

Poor enforcement of Hospitals Waste Management Rules 2006 is responsible for this sorry state of affairs and behind the spread of diseases amongst wider sections of population. Majority of the hospitals in the city are not properly disposing their infectious clinical waste.

Consequently, vulnerable children and youth, who pick recyclable things from garbage dumps, get cuts and bruises, which transmit viruses and bacteria into them. Even those hospitals that have incinerators were not segregating infectious and non-infectious waste before putting it in incinerators. 50 percent of hepatitis/ HIV/ Aids patients in the province have caught these diseases from infectious injection or misuse of injections.