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MEDICAL-WASTE-MANAGEMENT (with picture)
Experts for clinical waste management hygienically
RAJSHAHI, Mar 6, 2020 (BSS) – Health experts at a participatory discussion
here unanimously called for bringing all the clinical wastes under hygienic
management to protect the environment from pollution and contamination.
They also observed that management of the clinical wastes is very
important for establishing an eco-friendly atmosphere in all the hospitals,
diagnostic centres and clinics.
The observation came at a daylong workshop titled “Medical Waste
Management (out house management) with Government approved committee under
Rajshahi Division/City Corporation” at conference hall of Rajshahi city
bhaban yesterday.
Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and Rajshahi City
Corporation (RCC) jointly organized the workshop.
DGHS Director Dr Belal Hossain and Divisional Director of Health
Services Dr Gopendra NathAcharya addressed the workshop as chief and special
guests respectively with RCC Secretary Abu Hayat Rahmatullah in the chair.
Deputy Director of the Department of Environment Munir Hossain, Civil
Surgeon Dr Enamul Haque, Vice Principal of Rajshahi Medical College Professor
Dr Bulbul Hossain and local unit President of Private Medical Practitioners
Association Dr Abdul Mannan also spoke.
Dr Belal Hossain said clinical waste management is the precondition to
ensure overall cleanliness in the hospital, reduce health risks of the
service providers and to prevent the spreading of infectious diseases.
In his remarks, Dr Abdul Mannan said there are more than 200 diagnostic
centres, clinics and hospitals only in the city producing around three to
four tonnes of waste every day and the huge wastes are being dumped in the
open places indiscriminately posing a serious threat to the public health as
well as other wildlife.
There is an insinuator in the compound of Rajshahi Medical College
Hospital (RMCH) in order to dispose of its waste but it remained non-
functional for over last one year. Currently, the RMCH is burning out its
wastes in an open place which isn’t safe and hygienic.
In all aspects, there is no any modern medical waste management plant in
the city. Whereas, there are tough laws against frequent and unhygienic
disposal of the wastes, Dr Mannan added.
He, however, said the upcoming plant will contribute a lot towards
hygienic management and disposal of the medical waste in the city.
Abu Hayat Rahmatullah told the meeting that a clinical waste management
plant is being established in Rajshahi city aimed at bringing all the wastes
including the risky and harmful ones produced in both public and private
clinics, diagnostics and hospitals under proper and hygienic management and
disposal.
The RCC and Prism Foundation are jointly implementing the project on
more than one bigha of land at Naodapara area.
Lion portion of the infrastructural development works have already been
completed and the plant is expected to go into functioning after installation
of requisite machineries and instruments within the near future.
The plant will operate a covered van for collecting wastes from the
existing clinics and hospitals regularly. Afterwards, those will be destroyed
through categorically segregations.
Hayat Rahmatullah said the wastes will be destroyed in six modern and
standard methods including insinuation, autoclave, chemical disinfection,
slather, washing and dumping of the severed parts of the human body through
the plant.
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