It is the custom of the servants to tie the necks of waste disposal bags and leave them in the corridors of the hospital, until it is time to load them on a cart and take them to the waste collection center. It is not uncommon for the bags to break open and leak the liquid contents, if any, on the floor. Such leaks result in formation of small puddles starting under the bags and spreading centrifugally. We get to see these puddles with or without the bags, depending on whether the bags have been taken away or not at the time of the sightings. It is necessary to diagnose what the source fluid is, so that one can feel more or less miserable when one accidentally steps into a puddle. The diagnostics are based mainly on the color, though one could diagnose them by odor too, if one were foolish enough to bend down and bring one's nose close to a puddle.
Blood from a blood bag or blood soaked rag.
Povidone iodine solution from a bottle broken by an accident prone Resident Doctor.
Cough mixture from a bottle broken by an accident prone relative of a patient.
Urine of a toddler held by an elder over an open bag so that he can relieve himself, or water used by a patient's relative to gargle into the bag after lunch/dinner in the corridor. When such a puddle is seen without a source bag, it could be the result of of a toddler peeing on the floor, a careless person upturning a water bottle, or people gargling on the floor after lunch/dinner in the corridor.
May God give wisdom the people who cause such puddles, so that they won't cause them.
In case it is too much to ask, may God give conscience to suppliers of waste disposal bags so that they will not supply such poor quality bags despite charging the sky for them.
Blood from a blood bag or blood soaked rag.
Povidone iodine solution from a bottle broken by an accident prone Resident Doctor.
Urine of a toddler held by an elder over an open bag so that he can relieve himself, or water used by a patient's relative to gargle into the bag after lunch/dinner in the corridor. When such a puddle is seen without a source bag, it could be the result of of a toddler peeing on the floor, a careless person upturning a water bottle, or people gargling on the floor after lunch/dinner in the corridor.
May God give wisdom the people who cause such puddles, so that they won't cause them.
In case it is too much to ask, may God give conscience to suppliers of waste disposal bags so that they will not supply such poor quality bags despite charging the sky for them.
