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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
No need for body to monitor hospital waste disposal
THE Baguio City Council committee on health and sanitation, ecology and environmental protection does not see a need to create a task force to monitor the waste disposal of hospitals and funeral parlors.
This developed as Councilor Erdolfo Balajadia, chair of the committee, said the Department of Health (DOH) and the City Health Department (CHD) are doing their job in ensuring that hygienic measures are employed in the disposal of hospital and pathological wastes.
Meanwhile, Balajadia announced that in the recent inspection by the Sanitation Division of the BHD and the City Environment and Parks Management Office (Cepmo), the two funeral parlors in the city already complied with the Sanitation Code of the Philippines.
The Baguio Memorial Chapel reportedly has its own septic vault at the city public cemetery while La Funeraria Paz has its own septic vault within the funeral parlor. Both establishments also disinfect pathological waste, he added.
In an inspection done earlier by the CEPMO, the Sacred Heart Hospital and the Fil-Chinese General Hospital were found to have violated waste disposal measures mandated by the DOH, when it found that its waste such as blades, syringes and used gauze are collected by the city instead of them being disposed off in their own septic vaults.
While recognizing that this problem had been practiced even before the result of Cepmo's investigation was made public, Balajadia said the management of these hospitals also did measures to comply with the ideal waste management standards set by the DOH. (RO)
(July 13, 2005 issue)
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