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Health Care Without Harm Competition Low-cost Technology for Sharps and Infectious Waste Management

Health Care Without Harm Competition Low-cost Technology for Sharps and Infectious Waste Management . SIGN/Technet 2001 Susan Wilburn Jorge Emmanuel. Health Care Without Harm 300 Member Organizations 33 Countries.

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Health Care Without Harm Competition Low-cost Technology for Sharps and Infectious Waste Management

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  1. Health Care Without Harm CompetitionLow-cost Technology for Sharps and Infectious Waste Management SIGN/Technet 2001 Susan Wilburn Jorge Emmanuel HCWH

  2. Health Care Without Harm300 Member Organizations 33 Countries Mission: To transform the health care industry so it is no longer a source of environmental harm by eliminating pollution in health care practices without compromising safety or care. Join by agreeing to the mission and goals. www.noharm.org HCWH

  3. Health Care Without Harm Goals • Promoting comprehensive pollution prevention practices. • Supporting the development and use of environmentally safe materials, technology and products. • Educating and informing health care institutions, providers, workers, consumers, and all affected constituencies about the environmental and public health impacts of the health care industry and solutions to these problems. HCWH

  4. Project Goals • To develop alternative medical waste technologies for rural areas • To educate about problems of medical waste • To provide government health ministries and ngo’s with alternative treatment technologies that they can promote and recommend HCWH

  5. Why Alternative Technologies? Volume and Toxicity • WHO Requirement for Disposable Syringes Creates Waste (volume) • Medical Waste Incineration contaminates the environment with mercury and creates dioxin (toxicity) FOR MORE INFO... For more information, guidelines, specifications and timetable: www.noharm.org HCWH

  6. Dioxin is a known human carcinogen Reproductive hazard Developmental neurotoxin Endocrine disruption Immune suppress Mercury is a neurotoxicant CNS damage to developing fetuses and young children Prenatal exposure leads to mental retardation Health Effects of Incineration Dioxin and Mercury HCWH

  7. Why Alternative Technologies?Political Imperative: POPs Treaty2001 • India PVC burn ban • Philippines – incinerator ban • Czech Republic – end medical waste in municipal incin • So. Africa – commun choice autoclave • US EPA Air Regs Result in Closure HCWH

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