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'I wash SWINE FLU infected clothes with bare hands'
Updated On: 13 August, 2009 07:06 AM IST | | Ketan Ranga
Laundry man at Pune's Dr Naidu Hospital faces grave risk of contracting HINI virus, according to health experts
Laundry man at Pune's Dr Naidu Hospital faces grave risk of contracting H1N1 virus, according to health experts
Sanjay Pardeshi (43), a dhobi at Naidu Hospital, risks his life every day when he washes clothes, pillow covers and bed sheets of the 200-odd H1N1 positive cases being treated there with his bare hands.
The Pardeshis, who have been living on the hospital premises for over 25 years, say they have never faced a condition as potentially dangerous.
"I have been working as a dhobi for the last seven years here. My mother was also a dhobi, as is my elder brother.
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