The latest report on medical waste in Lebanon was issued by Greenpeace International through its Beirut office entitled "Dangerous Medicine in Lebanon". It contains facts about the danger of the remnants of pharmaceutical laboratories, hospitals, laboratories, clinics of doctors, clinics, medical centers, clinics of veterinarians and clinics of dentists on the environment and human health, especially the risk of dioxin, which causes cancer in humans and causes congenital defects and decline in fertility and weakness of the immune system and general hormonal imbalance in the body. And the substance of mercury, which causes imbalance in the growth of the fetal brain and direct poisoning of the nervous system, kidney and liver.
The report also includes facts and figures on the quantities and nature of medical waste and on hospitals in Lebanon, based on a national statistical survey conducted in 1997, but most of these figures are estimated. 18% of the hospitals said they do not know the amount of waste they issue, while 75% She knows nothing about her waste.
The Greenpeace report focuses on the opposition to the principle of incineration of medical waste because it contains human remains, chemicals, radioactive nuclear materials, anatomical residues and surgical tools such as syringes and so on. Greenpeace offers an alternative solution for burning autoclave by using steam and preserving it, killing the germs completely.
The issuance of this report comes at a crucial time. The Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) is presenting a study on hospital waste management by the Council of Ministers after the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Environment put their observations on it. This study is covered by the CDR, which took years to prepare.
The report is not limited to blaming World Bank policy in third world countries, including Lebanon, of course, because the Bank encourages the spread of incinerators at a time when UNEP is sponsoring negotiations on an international convention to phase out the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants - Pops Among the priority items mentioned in this new agreement is the dioxin produced when burning medical waste.
The report sheds light on a healthy environmental problem that Greenpeace is helping to address. In view of the importance of the topic, the Covenant publishes excerpts from this report, noting that no similar study has yet been issued on this subject except for an English-language study by Dr Rita Karam Muawad 1997 entitled National Survery for the elimination of the solids hospital waste in lebanon.
The report also includes facts and figures on the quantities and nature of medical waste and on hospitals in Lebanon, based on a national statistical survey conducted in 1997, but most of these figures are estimated. 18% of the hospitals said they do not know the amount of waste they issue, while 75% She knows nothing about her waste.
The Greenpeace report focuses on the opposition to the principle of incineration of medical waste because it contains human remains, chemicals, radioactive nuclear materials, anatomical residues and surgical tools such as syringes and so on. Greenpeace offers an alternative solution for burning autoclave by using steam and preserving it, killing the germs completely.
The issuance of this report comes at a crucial time. The Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) is presenting a study on hospital waste management by the Council of Ministers after the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Environment put their observations on it. This study is covered by the CDR, which took years to prepare.
The report is not limited to blaming World Bank policy in third world countries, including Lebanon, of course, because the Bank encourages the spread of incinerators at a time when UNEP is sponsoring negotiations on an international convention to phase out the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants - Pops Among the priority items mentioned in this new agreement is the dioxin produced when burning medical waste.
The report sheds light on a healthy environmental problem that Greenpeace is helping to address. In view of the importance of the topic, the Covenant publishes excerpts from this report, noting that no similar study has yet been issued on this subject except for an English-language study by Dr Rita Karam Muawad 1997 entitled National Survery for the elimination of the solids hospital waste in lebanon.
