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Medical wastes such as used needles and syringes, soiled dressings, body parts, diagnostic samples, blood, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and medical devices are abundantly available in open rubbish areas around hospitals in urban areas where poor children of
Ahmad Zia Entezar/IRIN

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