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As a conscientious citizen, he returned home after wearing a mask all day and threw it in the kitchen trash. Then he went hand in hand to the garbage can. Meanwhile, the same trash can is also the last address for Etaseta waste from another Kovid-infected person in isolation on the upper floor. The deadly Kovid-19 has a chance to lurk in the hands of debris.
The list is not just a mask. A new crisis is emerging with PPE, gloves and all the materials used by the patient. To address this, medical waste management needs urgent modernization and integrated policies, and the awareness of the general public is also very important. Otherwise, the whole country will be in ambush.
To prevent coronavirus infection, the government made the use of outdoor masks mandatory on May 30 this year. Health workers are wearing PPE. After use, all of this becomes covid waste. Although guidelines and public notices have been issued by the Department of Health and the Department of the Environment for the management of Kovid-19 waste in homes and medical facilities, it has not been implemented nationwide.
A study by BRAC, a non-governmental development organization, found that only 6.6 percent of health care and medical waste was properly managed in the Kovid epidemic. The remaining 93 percent is around us!
Prism Bangladesh is the only non-governmental organization dealing with medical waste. In Corona’s early days, they were working together with two city corporations to collect waste from various hospitals and homes. Sources, who did not want to be identified, said that although the municipal corporation was active in the matter at first, now no one complains.
Prism Bangladesh is working with 26 public and private hospitals in Dhaka. Kovid waste is collected of these about two thousand kg!
Kovid hospitals are known to store their waste in biosafety bags under airtight conditions and the staff of the Prism Bangladesh Foundation first sprayed a strong disinfectant on the waste bags stored in accordance with hygiene regulations. They are then transported in specialized covered vans to the Matuail Medical Waste Management Plant. The waste is incinerated at high temperatures (1200-1500 degrees Celsius).
Dhaka Medical College Hospital, specialist in medicine and infectious diseases. Farhad Uddin Hasan Chowdhury Maruf told the Bengali Tribune: “It is extremely risky to throw masks and gloves on the road after using them or not handling them correctly.”
Children are also picking up such waste from the road, Dr. Farhad Uddin Hasan Chowdhury Maruf said: “They are not required to follow health rules. They will also act as a source of corona spread.
The study found that about 246 tons of waste is generated every day in medical centers across the country. Of which only 35 tons are managed. Most of it is limited to Dhaka.
71 percent of people use masks and other health care products. Their masks and other crown debris are completely mixed with household waste.
The cleaners also said they are obtaining masks and gloves with household waste from almost every home. BRAC Executive Director Asif Saleh said 3,000 tonnes of medical waste was generated in Dhaka alone in May. From this it is understood what dangers await for the environment and public health.
“Medical waste was already a big problem. Added to this is Covid West. Khandaker Anisur Rahman, CEO of Prism Bangladesh, told the Bengali Tribune: North City Corporation is giving us Covid Waste collected from home in five zones. But Southern City Corporation could do nothing. He didn’t tell us anything.
Assistant manager of company programs. Mazharul Islam told the Bengali Tribune, “Covid-non-covid patients are being treated in all hospitals. Hospitals were told from the outset to contain waste in biosafety bags. Then we can deliver it directly to the incinerator. But PPE waste is difficult to manage. This is because the PPE fabric is added to the incinerator to increase heat and the incinerator decomposes quickly. Of course there is nothing to do. We have to keep it up. ‘
Steps were taken last June to raise public awareness to keep covid waste separate from homes. Commodore M Saidur Rahman, director of waste management at Northern City Corporation, told the Bengali Tribune: “Every Saturday and Tuesday our staff will bring the waste. Then they will keep it separate and then Prism will take it to Bangladesh.”
But when asked if it is happening now, Saidur Rahman said: ‘It is not happening now. People have become insomniac. The mask is not worn that way either. We can re-issue separate instructions. But the problem is that no one in the house keeps the covid waste separately. We can’t separate either. ‘
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