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Kenya: How Toxic and Infectious Medical Waste Can Be Harming Citizens

Kenya: How Toxic and Infectious Medical Waste Can Be Harming Citizens

A visit to the hospital does not usually show what happens in the trunk. It is here where lost blood and body tissues and parts from surgeries, pharmaceuticals, medicine bottles — tonnes of hospital waste — go through. In the instance of the Kenyatta National Hospital, this might be as much as one tonne a day estimated to be half the medical waste generated from town. Quite understandably, it is not usually open to the general public. Most of these…

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Another challenge: disposing of waste

Another challenge: disposing of waste

Just one Ebola patient treated in a U.S. hospital will generate eight 55-gallon barrels of medical waste each day. Protective gloves, gowns, masks and booties are donned and doffed by all who approach the patient’s bedside and then discarded. Disposable medical tools, packaging, bed sheets, cups, plates, tissues, towels, pillowcases and anything which is utilized to clean up after the individual has to be thrown away. Dealing with this assortment of pathogen-filled debris without triggering new illnesses is a legal…

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Situación peligrosa: incineradores en los principales hospitales de K-P fuera de servicio

Situación peligrosa: incineradores en los principales hospitales de K-P fuera de servicio

PESHAWAR: Incluso con reglas claras de que los desechos de los hospitales estatales deben incinerarse dentro de las 24 horas posteriores a su recolección, los incineradores de dos hospitales importantes en Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) están fuera de servicio y los desechos se tiran fuera de los hospitales. Según los datos recopilados por la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA), solo en la capital provincial se generan diariamente de 15 a 20 toneladas de desechos hospitalarios. Casi la mitad del total de residuos…

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