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Huai'an Special Inspection on Medical Waste Treatment
time:2020-02-28

Standardized treatment of medical waste and wastewater in designated hospitals is the last defense line to effectively prevent secondary pollution. Over the past few days, personnel from Huai'an ecology and environment departments have been fighting in the front line of law enforcement during the epidemic prevention and control and carrying out special inspection on medical waste and wastewater treatment, so as to maintain the city's environmental safety.

Since the Spring Festival, the inspection team of Huai'an Ecology and Environment Bureau has successively visited Huai'an First, Second and Third People's Hospital, to check the storage sites and facilities of medical waste, as well as the sewage treatment system and disinfection, etc. Monitoring personnel have been assigned to take samples from the medical sewage inlet and outlet. It is found that highly infectious medical waste is collected and stored by special personnel in all municipal hospitals. 1000mg/L chlorine-containing disinfectant is used to spray and disinfect the sealed barrel before and after the waste is transferred to the hospitals' temporary storage site along the designated routes. The storage time of highly infectious medical waste is not more than 24 hours, and then it is collected by Huai'an Zhongyou Youyi Environmental Protection Service Co., Ltd. for further treatment. The inspection team has also visited the company to ensure its normal operation. It has two sets of medical waste treatment equipment, with a treatment capacity of 17.8 tons per day.