MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL IS FLAWED SINCE WORKERS ARE NOT PROPERLY TRAINED

  • 23/02/2022

Kuwait City: "The Environment Public Authority, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Health, is currently working on discussing the best ways to receive medical waste and medicines generated from healthcare institutions affiliated with the private sector, as well as discuss updates of the project to establish, supply, operate, manage, and maintain a medical waste treatment unit," informed sources said. 


According to environmental researcher Esraa Buhamad, whose master's thesis focused on medical waste, "Medical waste in Kuwait is disposed of in two ways - sterilisation of the materials to be reused, or combustion." The rate of gas emissions produced by the incinerators is within the limitations set by the Environment Public Authority. The predicted rise in waste generation due to population growth, the need for hospital expansions to enhance capacity, and the likelihood of an increase in the emission rate in the future should all be considered.

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