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Thursday, June 19, 2003
City Hall okays PIH operation
By Dante M. Fabian
ANGELES City Mayor Carmelo "Tarzan" Lazatin has finally issued the business permits to the Philippine International Hospital (PIH) after its management submitted copies of contracts it signed with a firm it engaged to collect, treat and dispose of its solid biomedical hospital wastes.
City Administrator Alberto Suller said that the business permits of PIH have been issued to the hospital officials Wednesday morning.
Suller said that Lazatin approved the permits after John MacDonald, PIH hospital administrator, reported that the management has fully complied with the requirements imposed as requisites for the issuance of the permits to operate the modern hospital.
He added that a PIH representative came to his office Wednesday morning to pick up the permits.
Expressing apprehensions that the improper disposal of wastes would cause health hazards to the city's residents, officials earlier prevented the operation of the hospital for lack of a disposal facility for its hazardous solid pathological and other wastes.
In addition, Suller said that the permits were withheld due to the inappropriate drainage system for its liquid wastes down into a creek that posed hazards to people residing in areas along the path of the creek due to contamination of the water table.
Suller said that instead of draining the liquid wastes into the creek, PIH authorities have implemented adjustments to place the liquid waste in a septic tank and have it pumped out into carrier tanks that will transport and dump this in areas where it cannot cause hazards to people or the environment.
He said that MacDonald also submitted copies of the contract it has entered into with the Chevalier Enviro Services, Inc. (CESI), a company that operates a hospital waste treatment and processing facility located in Paranaque, Metro Manila.
The contract signed by MacDonald and Engr. Sandra A. Castro, CESI general manager, bound CESI "to render and undertake health care waste collection, treatment and disposal services for PIH."
As such, CESI agreed to undertake collection and hauling out of all health care wastes contained in specified plastic bags and in one depository located in the hospital premises.
For its services, PIH officials will pay CESI P43 per kilogram of hospital wastes collected or a minimum of P3, 500 per month, or which ever is higher.
(June 19, 2003 issue)
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