![]() "We have found too much negligence on the part of hospitals," said Amatya. The Prime Minister´s Office (PMO) had formed a committee to propose ways to regulate hospital waste. "Most of the private hospitals, nursing homes, poly clinics and some government run hospital do not have waste management facility," said Dr Sumitra Shakya, executive director at Solid Waste Management and Technical Support Center (SWMTSC), which under Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD). STIDH, popularly known as Teku Hospital, is one among many hospitals in the country that lack proper waste disposal system of their own. The hospital authority even does not think it necessary to bar them from scavenging hazardous waste Fluids, body parts, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and radioactive materials come under hazardous hospital waste. ![]() Employees at the hospital said that every morning garbage collectors scramble for plastic and other medical wastes in the waste container inside the hospital premises. Over 2,000 HIV infected patients are undergoing treatment at the hospital. He said that the hospital would welcome support from donor agencies and individuals willing to assist it in the waste management.ĭirector Prajapati also said that the waste produced from the hospital is 10 times riskier than the wastes produced from other hospitals because it mostly deals with infectious diseases. "But we are not in a position to set up a waste management facility on our own," he said, adding, "We have been requesting to the ministry to provide additional grant but to no avail." He also admitted that the hospital does not have a system to dispose medical wastes and has been mixing them with the general waste that is carried off by KMC.ĭoctors at the hospital said that proper management of medical waste is a big challenge in view of the emergence of new types of infectious diseases.ĭr Prajapati said that the government and the World Health Organization (WHO) have urged the hospital to manage the hospital waste properly. We haven´t been able to purchase an autoclave machine to sterilize used syringes," conceded Dr Indra Prasad Prajapati, director at the hospital. Patients suffering from infectious diseases are sent to the hospital from across the country for treatment. He said that due to lack of proper waste disposal facility, the hospital has been burning the used syringes.Īs the only national referral center for tropical and infectious diseases, the hospital have been providing treatment to patients with HIV, tuberculosis, tetanus, swine flu, dengue, Malaria, hepatitis, rabies, among others. ![]() ![]() "Used syringes pose great risk to the public health, so we burn them on the roof top of the hospital," said an employee seeking anonymity. He said that the hospital burns discarded syringes on the roof top. The hospital has buckets of different colors for segregated wastes but at the end of the day they are all dumped in the same garbage container. "We separate wastes based on whether they are hazardous or non hazardous but are compelled to dump them into the same container," said Deula, who has been serving at the hospital for the last 14 years. Though Deula segregates wastes produced at the hospital, he has no choice but to throw them all into a container placed by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) at the hospital premises. Kathmandu, Nepal - Bhailal Deula, 37, an employee at the housekeeping department of Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital (STIDH), complained that his hard labor at the hospital is being wasted. ![]()
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