ADJUMANI.

For the previous four months, support staff at the hospital have been dumping medical waste inside the enclosure of their incinerator rather than burning it.

The hospital administrator, Mr Michael Ojja, told Daily Monitor on Wednesday that the incinerator broke down due to continuous burning of collected waste from the hospital.

“The waste has increased as a result of the overwhelming number of admissions and people going to the outpatient department. But we must find solutions to protect the staff and surroundings,” Ojja said.

The hospital medical superintendent, Dr Dominic Drametu, said they had asked the government for construction of a new incinerator.

He said the incinerator was too small to dispose of their hospital’s voluminous medical waste.

Patients admitted to the general ward near the incinerator expressed fear of infections arising from poor disposal of hazardous medical waste.

As stated by the 2013-2014 annual health industry performance report, Adjumani Hospital registers 11,731 in-patients, 83,953 outpatients and 1,695 deliveries.

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An operating test should be conducted to ensure that all of the control components have been properly installed and

that all parts of the incinerator, including controls and safety devices, are in satisfactory operating condition. The

requirements for prepurge and time between restarts should be verified. The test should include but not limited to the

following;

?     Capacity tests of incinerator

?     Flame safeguard. The operation of the flame safeguard system should be verified by causing flame and  ignition

failures.  Operation of  the audible alarm (where applicable) and visible indicator should be verified. The shutdown

times should be verified.

?     Testing of all shutdowns to the system.

?     Interlocks. All interlocks provided should be tested for proper operation as specified by the unit

manufacturer.

?     Combustion controls. The combustion controls should be stable and operate smoothly.

?     Programming       controls.       Programming       controls should   be   verified  as

controlling and cycling the unit in the intended manner. Proper prepurge, ignition, postpurge, and modulation should be

verified. A stopwatch should be used for verifying intervals of time.

?     Fuel supply controls. The satisfactory operation of the fuel control solenoid valves for all conditions of

operation and shutdown should be verified.

?     Low voltage test. A low voltage test should be conducted on the incinerator unit to satisfactorily demonstrate

that the fuel supply to the burners will be automatically shut off before an incinerator malfunction results from the

reduced voltage.

?     Switches. All switches should be tested to verify proper operation. Emission tests. The exhaust of the

incinerator shall be tested to comply with local emission limits given in annex 1. Note that this test has to be

witnessed by an independent body acceptable by the CEB. The test shall include measurement of parameters given in annex

PESHAWAR:

Based on information collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 15 to 20 tons of hospital waste is made daily in the provincial capital alone. Almost half of the entire waste is recycled while the remainder is collected by the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA).

LRH

“To be truthful, we’ve got one incinerator which is not in proper working condition and hardly disposes a quarter of this entire waste generated,” said an official in Lady Reading Hospital while requesting anonymity. “But we’ve got a new incinerator which will shortly be functional.”

The officer, who did not know the specific amount of the waste generated, said LRH was one of the well-equipped hospitals throughout the country. It’s over 5,000 individuals (at least 3,000 in outpatient and 2,000 in accident and emergency departments) from throughout the state on a daily basis.

“The incinerator under process has some problems as a few of its parts are yet to be obtained,” said the official. “It also needs sufficient gas–yet another major problem–but we’re in contact with Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL).”

The LRH official added the supply of gasoline into the hospital is not sufficient for sterilisation. He said the hospital government is in contact with SNGPL authorities and the issue will soon be solved.

HMC

Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) Chief Executive Dr Mumtaz Marwat said the incinerator in HMC is out of sequence but it does burn some waste. “The leftover is collected by the PDA and the hospital administration has approved Rs0.4million for a new incinerator, which will shortly be installed.”

“Along with the solid waste generated by KTH, we also recycle waste that comes from a few private hospitals in University Town,” said Roghani.

The EPA has already sent a written notice to the health directorate, requesting it to correctly dispose of medical waste as mentioned beneath Hospital Waste Management Rules 2005. These say the duty of waste management lies solely with the magician which generated it.

What happens following

Actually if the incinerators at these hospitals are repaired, the problem of unattended dump is likely to last. This is largely because of the tiny personal health centers which lack the fundamental knowledge and dispose of their waste as’municipal waste’. The ever-increasing amount of these centers is directly proportional to the waste generated, which makes it a danger for the environment as sometimes the waste is just left in a pile or buried into groundwater.