Objective
The project will assess the present practices of medical waste management in Syria and identify the quantities and qualities of generated waste in Syria through a detailed survey and monitoring program of health facilities, develop an integrated Medical Waste Management Plan that incorporates the national administration and financial mechanisms for launching and sustaining the above plan; provide manuals of procedures and practices to ministries of health and environment and municipalities to be distributed nationally on medical facilities, which includes procedures and practices for handling, collection, storage, transportation, treatment and disposal of medical waste; and provide a comprehensive training program for senior management staff in the private and public sectors, involved in medical waste, on medical waste management.The envisaged actions are:
1. detailed monitoring of 14 medical waste facilities (5 hospitals, 3 medical labs, 3 microbiological research centres and 3 pharmaceutical industries);
2. risk assessment of present medical waste management practices; training course on medical waste management;
3. development of an integrated waste management plan.
The results expected are:
- Characterisation of medical waste on a national level;
- Assessment and evaluation of existing conditions;
- Adaptation of European Union and World Health Organisation Standards, on medical waste management, to Syrian medical facilities;
- Evaluation and upgrading of existing administrative and financial mechanisms to launch and sustain the medical waste management plan.
Over 18,000 hospital beds in Syria generate 54,000 tons of medical waste, that is not handled or disposed of properly. Also, medical laboratories, microbiological research centres and the pharmaceutical industries are contributors in medical waste pollution. Discharge of untreated medical waste to the environment presents a high risk to human health, due to its highly hazardous, toxic and infectious nature. The risk imposed is either direct, through infection and toxicity, or indirect through pollution damage to the environment.
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Damascus
Syria