Medical waste posing threat to health
Speakers tell seminar
Lack of enforcement of the medical waste management and handling rules 2008 for slack monitoring hinders waste management system causing health hazards, said speakers at a seminar yesterday.
ICDDR,B Family Health International (FHI) and Health Care Without Harm organised the seminar titled “Medical Waste Management in Bangladesh” at Sasakawa auditorium of ICDDR,B in the city to raise awareness about proper medical waste management.
Speakers said health care facilities are generating a variety of solid wastes from infectious sharps, pathological waste, toxic chemicals and other infectious materials. These items are picked up and resold for slack monitoring and carelessness of the medical authorities.
These resold items contain residual infectious material leading to infection of a patient if use.
A good number of medical facilities along with diagnostic laboratories don't have the facilities to treat the liquid waste rather they are releasing antibiotic resistant pathogens and active antibiotics into the environment indiscriminately.
The age-old Bangladesh Private Practice and Clinic Ordinace, 1982 lacks provisions to control the wastes from laboratories.
However, a draft proposal has been submitted to the health ministry to strengthen the monitoring system and providing licences to the private, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centers,” Said Dr Saidur Rahman, deputy programme manager, hospital of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Dr Aruna Biswas, FHI Country Director Misti McDowell, Ruth Stringer of Health Care without Harm, Tarit Kanti Biswas and Solaiman Haider also spoke.
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