Confidential paper disposal

It is something of a puzzle that companies managing clinical wastes don’t extend their services to clients by offering to dispose also of confidential paper waste.

While for the larger players waste management services are all embracing, the smaller operators are one-trick ponies disposal clinical waaste and its varients and not much, or probably nothing else. Why not?

Expansion and diversification is so important these days, and though there are penty of players dealing exclusively with paper waste, the two operations seem to compliment each other perfectly.

It would certainly better that at Sligo General Hospital in Ireland, a country known for all sorts of clinical waste ‘problems’ over the last two decade. And  now in Sligo, an investigation has been launched after patient documents from a hospital were found dumped in a bog. It is the latest embarrassment for the Health Service Executive following the discovery of patients’ medical records dumped in Mayo and Roscommon in recent weeks.

“In the latest incident, documents from Sligo General Hospital were found by litter wardens who were cleaning up waste at a notorious dumping ground outside the village of Abbeyknockmoy in north Co Galway.

“The office of the Data Protection Commissioner said that the documents did not contain personal information.

“However, a county councillor in Abbeyknockmoy who saw some of the documents found by the litter wardens on Wednesday said that names were visible on the partially shredded papers.

“An attempt had been made to shred the documents but the names were identifiable.

 

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