There are two issues here. One is drug trafficking.
And the other is the health aspects of discarded needles and syringes. If there are many of them that decreases the chances of people sharing them. That is good for health. If they are sitting out on the ground they can give children hepatitis. But not HIV.
Good to clean them up. A festival is a great idea.
Jamie
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Sagaing Region government invited to hold festival to collect syringes discarded by drug usesrs in Kawlin Township
Daily Eleven
Reported by Frontier Media Monitor
translators Thiri Min Htun and Kyawt Darly Lin
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Rampant drug trafficking and use in a Sagaing Region town has prompted a concerned resident to ask the regional government to host a "syringe collection festival”. A woman brandishing a bucket full of discarded syringes proposed the idea at a meeting in the town with the regional chief minister.
'Sagaing Region government invited to hold festival to collect syringes discarded by drug usesrs in Kawlin Township
A resident of Kawlin Township in Sagaing Region has invited the regional government to hold a “syringe collection festival” to highlight the township’s drug abuse problem.
Daw Mi Mi Gyi, who has a home in Kyun Hla Gone village and also lives in Yangon, proposed the syringe collection event at a meeting in Kawlin town with regional government ministers and other officials on December 15, during which she displayed a bucket full of discarded syringes.
“I collected these syringes this morning,” she told the meeting. “If you do not believe me, please join me in collecting used syringes; you can hold a syringe collecting festival,” said Mi Myi Gyi, a member of the executive committee of the National League for Democracy in Kawlin Township.
Sagaing Region Chief Minister Dr Myint Naing admonished officials at the meeting for not making him more aware about the drug abuse problem in the township.
“I have set a policy to crack down on drug abuse and I often told you to report complaints about people selling drugs, even if they are your children or relatives. What are you doing? Now, she has confronted me with a bucket of syringes,” he said.
7Day Daily, reports that a haystack near Mi Mi Gyi’s village house was set on fire on the night of December 15 and that she suspected drug traffickers were responsible.
Myint Naing has ordered the authorities to provide security for Mi Mi Gyi and her family.
The Mirror Daily, meanwhile, has published another list from the President’s Office of drug arrests and narcotics seizures. Those arrested included a man, 41, from a village in Kawlin Township for possessing an unspecified amount of opium. "
