A US$155 million hospital waste water treatment project was kicked off yesterday by the Ministry of Health and financed by the World Bank in Ha Noi, Vietnam.
The project aims to minimise environmental pollution due to medical waste from hospitals in order to improve people’s health.
The 6-year plan would help strengthen policies relating to medical waste management and establish solid and water waste treatment systems for at least 150 hospitals.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health showed that more than 1,260 hospitals and over 1,000 medical clinics nationwide have discharged around 350 tonnes of solid waste (600 tonnes by 2015) and 150,000 cubic metres of liquid waste per day. However, 56 per cent of hospitals nation-wide have no waste water treatment system at all.
Until now, 70 per cent of hospitals with waste management systems have failed to meet current standards, and 50 per cent have separated and collected solid medical waste following the process of medical waste management regulation.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health showed that more than 1,260 hospitals and over 1,000 medical clinics nationwide have discharged around 350 tonnes of solid waste (600 tonnes by 2015) and 150,000 cubic metres of liquid waste per day. However, 56 per cent of hospitals nation-wide have no waste water treatment system at all.
Until now, 70 per cent of hospitals with waste management systems have failed to meet current standards, and 50 per cent have separated and collected solid medical waste following the process of medical waste management regulation.
Until now, 70 per cent of hospitals with waste management systems have failed to meet current standards, and 50 per cent have separated and collected solid medical waste following the process of medical waste management regulation.
US$155 million hospital waste water treatment project is a mammoth undertaking. The treatment of solid wastes can be particularly difficult due to a lack of efficient treatment facilities that result in much untreated waste being openly burned or placed into landfill in circumstances where the water table is so high pathogens from deposited waste reappear in surface and drinking water within a matter of hours.