To ensure sustainable safe management of
healthcare wastes, Lagos State Government has announced it would soon release
official guidelines on proper healthcare waste management.
The new guidelines would be released next
year in accordance with the National policy on healthcare.
The state’s commissioner for the environment,
Tunji Bello added that the state is also fighting to keep the annual Health
Care Waste Certification (HCWC) as a major condition for renewal of annual
licenses by the Ministry of Health for all healthcare facilities in the state.
He revealed these while speaking at the
2nd National Healthcare Waste Summit hosted by the Lagos Waste Management
Authority (LAWMA) with the theme: Healthcare Waste Management and the
Environment”.
He said: “The major landmark in the history of HCWM was
made this year when the Federal Ministry of Environment launched the National
Policy on Healthcare Waste Management. The giant stride is a plus to our Nation
in general and right on track.
“The LAWMA guideline on proper
healthcare waste management drawn from the National Policy is to be released in
the 1st quarter of 2014 thus making Lagos State the pioneer state to draw up a
guideline for healthcare waste management.”
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