Our Correspondent :
Clinical waste management in Barishal Sher E Bangla Medical College Hospital is going on without any scientific management, proper cleaning and dumping and piled on different open places of the hospital posing risks of environmental and health hazards.
Stray dogs and birds often scattered the waste throughout the hospital campus and even adjacent areas spreading bad smells and creating health hazards among the medical service seekers.
Dr. Bakir Hossain, director SBMCH, said staff are sweeping clinical wastes from different wards of the hospital regularly.
These clinical wastages included used bandages, syringe and needles, amputated parts of human body, stool, urine, blood, coughs and other items examined in laboratories, used saline, plastic and glass bottles of medicine and ingredients used for medical services and several other disposable and non-disposable items, he told.
SBMCH sources said an insinuator and autoclave machine were installed in the campus about ten years ago. But it became out of order since 2011 and the place covered by bushes.
All of these items usually contaminated with germs or health hazarding components and needs to be destroyed in compositor machine and burnt in insinuators after collected and dumped in proper way.
Before starting corona pandemic wastes were regularly collected from the hospital by Barishal City Corporation and dumped at the Natun Moylakhola of Kawnia area in the city. Then those were burnt in an insinuator after making disinfections.
However after starting corona pandemic collecting clinical waste and those to dumping place carrying on open roads became risky and BCC stopped to collect clinical waste from the hospital since April 2020.
So hospital authourity after talking with BCC started to dump those under the ground digging holes in front side of the hospital because medical college building situated in backside of campus, hospital director added.
However for getting a permanent solution of the clinical waste management, SBMCH must arrange own complex equipped with waste collection, insinuator and autoclave machine and it needs special programme and budget, said the SBMCH director.
