A Hazardous and Special Waste Treatment Facility at the Bago City Hospital grounds was inaugurated and blessed Friday morning, June 28.
Initiated by the City Environment Management Office (CEMO), the P16.8-million treatment facility that includes a thermal decomposition machine will cater to hazardous and special waste of the local government-run hospital and those of private laboratories in the city, a press release from Bago City said.
The inauguration was led by Mayor Nicholas Yulo and Vice Mayor Ramon Torres.
City Environment Management Officer Vicente Mesias said that the management of infectious, special and hazardous waste is mandated by law.
Hospitals and medical laboratories are supposed to have mechanisms and facilities to manage these waste from disinfection, storage, transport, processing and disposal, Mesias said.
“Bago City Hospital is the first local government unit-managed facility to acquire and use this thermal decomposition technology in Negros,” he said, adding that the this facility will also accommodate “medical and infectious wastes from private sources thereby ensuring its better management and avoiding the spread of illnesses.”*