Proper handling of medical garbage in China urgent
It was learnt at the First International Seminar of Medical Trash Management that at present China is backward in management technique for effective disposal of the medical garbage. Environmental pollution and potential risk to people's health are the important issues calling for an urgent specified management of the medical trash at the present time.
Professor Nie Yongfang, specialist of environment protection, Qinghua University, pointed out that in China each hospital bed had an average production of medical garbage of 1 kg daily (including the disposed syringes, dressings, surgically removed tissues, biochemical preparations and garbage of the general livelihood etc.). In Beijing the daily medical garbage weighs 40-70 tons. In spite of the publicity of some related legislations by the Ministry of Health and State Environment Protection Administration, a lot of problems existed during the practical disposal of the medical trash. For instance, in some hospitals small burning ovens are used for management of medical garbage, which causes environmental pollution and the dioxin contained in the gaseous output being harmful to human health. There are also some hospitals entrusting other units or individuals for management of medical trash and then the later was mixed up with the garbage of the general livelihood and the two varieties were buried together. Some of the retrievers under the protection of the idea of "multiple use of resources" produced other kinds of plastics using the disposable syringes simply after irrigation with the lukewarm water; some even produced the bucket specially used for drinking water.
Professor Nie said that the major hazard of the medical garbage was its infectivity which made its disposal and management a very important problem. For proper management of the medical garbage, in addition to the publicity of the related legislations, a joint colligation administration by the related governmental sections and the cooperation of the medical personnel as well as the administrators of the hospitals were of utmost importance, because the damage caused by the medical garbage at first threatened the health of the medical personnel., 百拇医药
Professor Nie Yongfang, specialist of environment protection, Qinghua University, pointed out that in China each hospital bed had an average production of medical garbage of 1 kg daily (including the disposed syringes, dressings, surgically removed tissues, biochemical preparations and garbage of the general livelihood etc.). In Beijing the daily medical garbage weighs 40-70 tons. In spite of the publicity of some related legislations by the Ministry of Health and State Environment Protection Administration, a lot of problems existed during the practical disposal of the medical trash. For instance, in some hospitals small burning ovens are used for management of medical garbage, which causes environmental pollution and the dioxin contained in the gaseous output being harmful to human health. There are also some hospitals entrusting other units or individuals for management of medical trash and then the later was mixed up with the garbage of the general livelihood and the two varieties were buried together. Some of the retrievers under the protection of the idea of "multiple use of resources" produced other kinds of plastics using the disposable syringes simply after irrigation with the lukewarm water; some even produced the bucket specially used for drinking water.
Professor Nie said that the major hazard of the medical garbage was its infectivity which made its disposal and management a very important problem. For proper management of the medical garbage, in addition to the publicity of the related legislations, a joint colligation administration by the related governmental sections and the cooperation of the medical personnel as well as the administrators of the hospitals were of utmost importance, because the damage caused by the medical garbage at first threatened the health of the medical personnel., 百拇医药