It seems most unlikely. A fake clinical waste operating plant? What was it? What did it pretend to be?

Amusing perhaps, but the reality seems far more sinister. In fact, the story relates to an unlicensed clinical (biomedical) waste plant operating at Samurou Makha Leikai in Imphal West which is in Manipur state in northeastern India. There, local officials from the Manipur Pollution Control Board (MPCB) unearthed a scam operation that was purporting to be a regular clinical waste disposal facility. In reality, there was no treatment facility at all, but instead a recovery and recycling operation that processed unsterilized syringes and other items for reuse.

The MPCB staff should be praised for identifying and putting a halt to this operation, for which the owner has been summoned. No doubt many lives have been saved by the elimination of unsafe injection equipment and other healthcare items. The regulation of clinical or biomedical (medical or healthcare) waste facilities has an importance that far outweighs the immediate box-ticking approach, extending as in this case to significant and wide ranging public health protection and crime prevention.