although they might keep them laying around for your baby to dab into them :
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/05/baby-blood-test.html
A one-year-old boy had to be tested for HIV and Hepatitis B after stabbing himself with a syringe during a routine visit to the paediatrician’s office. Baby Mubarak was at the Welcare clinic at Knowledge Village last week for a routine vaccination when he was left unattended to wander around the office and ended up sticking his hand in ayellow bucket of used syringes.
A nurse quickly disinfected the wound and blood tests were conducted on the boy. Rashed Ahmed, the boy’s father said the yellow bucket, which had a sliding top was not secured properly and was laid there on the floor accessible to any child. “It’s outrageous that even though it’s a paediatrician’s office, the bucket full of used syringes was not put away and out of children’s reach,” Ahmed said.
But Dr Sumedha Sahni, the head of quality at Welcare health systems, said the parents are to blame for not watching their child properly while his older brother was being vaccinated.“Such incidents show the need for stricter parental supervision and with two parents in the room one of them should have kept an eye on their child or taken him to the play area,” Sahni added.
Ahmed said his son was crying because he wanted to walk around and “in one split second I saw Mubarak run to the corner of the room and put his hand into an open yellow bucket, which was full of syringes,” said the shocked father. Dr Sahni said that blood tests came up negative, but the child would have to go for another test in three months to ensure he was not infected.
“Infections by needles aren’t common and only one of 1,000 infected needles can actually transmit a disease,” she added. Welcare clinic will now require all syringe-buckets to be fixed high on the walls to avoid such incidents, Dr Sahni said.