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Coronavirus-related waste is now largely generated in outdoor fitness facilities
Waste of health care, coupled with PPE-related waste, is now a serious risk to public health and the environment, as waste generated outdoors in hospitals and clinics is not yet well controlled throughout the country because of this pandemic.
In addition, there is also a lack of good enough control of biomedical waste generated through fitness services in many parts of the country, as there are well-equipped medical waste control plants in Dhaka, Sylhet, Rangpur and Rajshahi and a small plant in Jessore. .
Coronavirus-related waste is now largely generated in outdoor fitness facilities due to the use of non-public protective appliances (PPEs), adding face masks, gloves and disinfectant containers, most of which remain untreated prior to disposal.
Experts under pressure, the need for intelligent control of care waste generated internal and external fitness services for public fitness and the environment.
Muzaherul Huq, a regional exasesor for Southeast Asia at the World Health Organization (WHO), said that physical care waste deserves to be absolutely separated from other wastes familiar to its management, as they pose a serious public health risk.
“Waste of home fitness care is combined with other family waste, which is very alarming,” he said, adding that the government will have to have a strategy to put its plan into force in this regard like many other countries.
The discharge of fitnesscare waste along with other family waste adds the spread of Covid-19 and other viral diseases, he said, adding that the government deserves to introduce functional control of fitnesscare waste. fitness of the country.
Environmentalist Dr. MA Matin said the symbol of medical waste control in the country was bleak because family physical care waste is not safely controlled that is discarded with other waste, in addition to medical waste generated in hospitals and clinics in some primary locations. nor is it being treated properly, he said.
MA Matin, also Vice President of Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA), said family care is safely controlled in many countries and separated from other families at the source, he added.
Medical waste is piled up to be thrown into a Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune trash can
Air Commodore Md Badrul Amin, Director of Waste Management at DSCC, also admitted that it was not yet imaginable to separate physical care waste from family waste.
“It will take time (to treat health care waste),” he said.
In the capital, the PRISM Bangladesh Foundation has been processing medical waste since 2006 following an agreement with the former Dhaka City Corporation, but medical waste created outdoors, fitness services remain outside its collection chain.
PRISM now continues to control medical waste after agreements with Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC). Agreements are renewed every six years.
“We collect biomedical waste from some 950 fitness services such as hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centers to treat them at the Medical Waste Management Plant at the Matuail landfill,” said Mazharul Islam, coordinator of PRISM Bangladesh’s medical waste control program.
The base collects more than six tons of waste from the capital’s fitness services according to the day, or about 10 to 11 tons of pre-Covid-19 consistent with the period, he said, adding that medical waste collection was increasing again.
Following the Covid-19 outbreak, the DNCC government asked city dwellers to purchase their PPE used in polyethylene bags to handle PRISM; however, the amount of these waste collected from families remained very negligible, Mazharul said.
During Wari’s closure, PRISM also collected medical you from the domain and processed it before getting rid of it, he said.
The collected medical tea is separated and stored in red, yellow and green containers, taking into account the types of tea. PRISM then collects the tee through its 11 covered vans.
The Matuail plant was the only well-equipped medical tee control plant with incinerator until 2018 in the country.
Later, 3 other well-equipped factories were established in Sylhet, Rangpur and Rajshahi. In addition, there is a small factory with an autoclave in Jessore. All factories are controlled through PRISM Bangladesh, he said.
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Kazi Anis Ahmed, editor