(Baonghean.vn) - Do Luong General Hospital is polluting the environment, causing harmful effects on people's health due to its lack of responsibility in handling medical waste.
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| Do Luong General Hospital currently has 14 departments and 175 beds. Over the past time, the hospital has invested in many facilities and equipment to become a grade 2 hospital. |
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| The incinerator of Do Luong General Hospital is licensed by the Provincial People's Committee through the Department of Health and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, with a capacity of 5kg/hour. |
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| Although the hospital's leaders said that the hospital still uses the furnace to burn solid waste, in reality, this furnace has not been used for a long time. The furnace lock is rusty. |
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| Hazardous waste is not burned in furnaces but is collected in open-air tanks. |
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| Burn marks indicate hazardous medical waste was burned right at the tank. |
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| Hospital waste is brought to a collection point and piled up in the old morgue area, very close to the residential area of hamlet 12, Da Son commune. Hospital leaders said: Every month, there will be 1-2 trips from the collection unit to transport the waste away. |
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| Right in the bag of household waste that hospital medical staff threw away were many used medicine bottles. |
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| ...and used necklaces and needles. |
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| The leader of Do Luong General Hospital said that the unit has built and operated a system of settling tanks, septic tanks and wastewater treated with a series of medical chemicals before being discharged into the environment. The location that the hospital staff pointed to was the septic tank, chemicals were brought down here to treat wastewater. |
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| However, photos taken inside the ditch show that there is actually no tank here. The hospital wastewater is not treated but discharged directly into the environment. |
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| The end of the hospital's wastewater discharge system is a local fish pond. |
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| Medical waste is mixed with household waste and transported by specialized vehicles to the Do Luong district landfill in Hong Son commune. Valuable scrap such as plastic, metal, etc. is collected by scrap collectors and brought to recycling plants. |
Thanh Son
