Waste treatment solution for hospitals in Vietnam

On April 12, in Hanoi, the French Embassy in Vietnam cooperated with the French trade office UBIFRANCE to hold a French-Vietnamese Seminar with the theme 'Environmental protection and health', to provide solutions. Waste treatment technology for hospitals in Vietnam.

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In the first phase, the project will be implemented in five central hospitals and five provincial hospitals in the Mekong Delta region.

Scientists attending the 'Environmental and Health Protection' Workshop focused on discussing issues related to medical waste treatment with microbiological technology; Decomposition process of organic substances in wastewater treatment processes.

Medical waste

Professor - Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Director of the Department of Health Environmental Management (Ministry of Health) said that in Vietnam there are about 13,640 medical facilities of all kinds (medical examination and treatment facilities, preventive medicine, and health facilities). Drug business departments, commune health stations .) have waste sources and medical waste generated, in which hazardous medical solid waste arises about 42 tons / day (accounting for 11.8% of total substances generated waste). It is expected that by 2015 there will be over 70 tons / day, by 2020 there will be over 93 tons / day.

Medical waste water has about 120,000m ³ / day and night (excluding waste water of preventive medicine establishments, medical and pharmaceutical training, medicine production and medical establishments of ministries and branches). It is expected that by 2015, there will be about 300,000m ³ / day and night.

Catherine Galtier, Executive Director of APB Environnement affirmed the treatment of all kinds of hospital waste, whether solid or waste water, polluted or non-polluted, APB Environnement will provide suitable solutions. in line with the sustainable development policy in Vietnam, to limit carbon emissions into the environment because these solutions do not need to be used to collect and transport, ensure the protection of people's health and friendliness. environment.

APB Environnement's technology is developed based on the use of microbial roots largely separated from samples taken from the environment, from people, animals or plants around the world. These are samples taken completely from nature, not genetically modified. Thus, APB Environnement has the ability to develop products on demand in accordance with the special requirements of each customer.

Currently, the treatment of medical waste in Vietnam does not yet have a wastewater treatment system, mainly pre-treating with chemicals, septic tanks, septic tanks . and also treating major medical solid waste. used by manual incinerators, or rented for processing and burial.