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Prevent marketing of unhygienic surgical masks
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08th-Jan-2021
IN the wake of
growing cases of coronavirus infection in winter, the demand for masks
is on the rise again. To meet the market demands, many people are
involving in the production of non-woven surgical masks without
maintaining health safety in the outskirts of Dhaka. Those masks are
being sold at local markets in boxes with no producer's name, trademark,
or other means of identification. Such face masks without maintaining
proper specifications are dangerous for public health and the
environment.
The use of face masks, as an effective gear to prevent
community transmission of Covid-19, increased considerably after the
government announced a strictly enforced "no mask, no service" policy at
public and private offices on November 2. Experts said wearing these
fake masks, people move around and feel a false sense of security and
that makes them susceptible to the virus. Unhygienic production of
surgical masks has put the sector at stake as the high-quality products
of factories maintaining health safety measures cannot compete with the
cheap low-quality masks.
A surgical face mask was sold at Tk 10 in
June-July last year. Now, people are buying four for Tk 10. The
production cost per thousand masks at the factory was around Tk 1,350,
but producers of low-quality masks were selling a thousand masks at only
Tk 1,100. Experts said there is no way to produce such medical
production with low-grade non-woven fabric and in an unhygienic
environment. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), use of a
cloth mask in a community setting is enough to stay safe from Covid-19
infection while medical masks are mandatory in a hospital setting, based
on the environment.
The Directorate General of Drug Administration
(DGDA) has set out different specifications and quality control
guidelines for both fabric and medical masks. It laid out the details
from materials to be used, to construction, packaging, marking and
warnings to be labelled on the boxes of the face masks. However, there
is no authority to maintain standardization of the essential safety
gear. The government should set some regulations to reduce bulk
production without proper specifications and encourage people to use
cloth-based reusable masks to get the maximum benefit of the people and
the environment as well.
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