Discarded Health Appliances Of Developed Countries Gifted To Asian Countries

Many discarded or not upto mark or standard or substandard as per their benchmark, developed countries like US, UK, France, Germany, Australia etc are usually sent to developing South African countries, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan,  Sri Lanka etc. Recent incidence of finding of unsafe syringes in Hospitals of South Africa,Nepal and India discarded by UK.Syringes declared unsafe for use by the UK's state-funded National Health Service (NHS) found their way to India and are likely to have been used in some hospitals in the country, a media report said in London today. According to a newspaper, banned Graseby syringe drivers were given to hospitals and medical organisations in countries such as India, South Africa and Nepal.

It followed the phased withdrawal of the devices from the NHS in 2010 following safety alerts dating back as far as 1995. As part of its investigation, the newspaper…