Recently the UN released a report stating that 3 out of 10 hospitals in the Philippines lack basic toilet facilities. That is only people hospitals. What about animal hospitals? I can testify they are horrendously unsanitary.
For instance here are two clinics that do not have proper disposal containers for used needles. Instead they use plastic bottles.
If you don't know, this is what a proper needle disposal container looks like:
It is not true that just any plastic container is appropriate to be used for needle disposal and for a veterinary clinic to use a bootleg bottle which can be easily punctured shows that they are not interested in investing in proper medical sanitation devices. Why not use a cardboard box? Or a yellow shopping bag from SM Supermarket? It would be just as unsanitary, unsafe, and wrong.
Each clinic does reuse those bottles rather than dispose of the whole bottle which is even more unsanitary because that means they are keeping a bottle which has accumulated goodness knows how much bio-waste. It also means someone has to shake out all the needles through the tiny hole which is wasteful and dangerous work if they get pricked. Where they dispose of the needles at the end of each day I have no idea.
At one clinic where I took my dog I asked to use the CR and was directed to a room in the back which contained this horrendous sight:
Absolutely disgusting. There is no reason this place is lacking a proper toilet and sink along with soap to wash up afterwards. Not to mention the walk back to this room was dangerous because the floor was slippery with dog piss and faeces. Dogs are kept in large cages with no bottom and they are allowed to mess all over the floor. The whole area stunk awfully.
This is only two clinics. How many other veterinary clinics in the Philippines are as disgusting as this? Likely quite a few. 3 in 10 perhaps?
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