Myanmar Now investigation finds waste collectors selling used syringes and intravenous drips to be made into household goods.
Two garbage disposal workers spent half an hour rummaging through mounds of medical waste with their bare hands on a recent morning outside the Bahosi Hospital in Yangon.
Dressed in orange uniforms issued by the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) they plucked blood-stained intravenous drip tubes and used syringes from red trash bags and tossed them into yellow ones.
These bags were destined for neighbourhoods in Yangon’s outskirts, where residents process and clean the high-grade plastic before selling it on to be made into household goods.