30 November 2005
UNDP picks two gov’t hospitals for multimillion peso waste project
THE United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is putting up a multi-million peso modern pathological and infectious waste disposal system at the Region 1 Medical Center here, soon to be the pilot all over the country.
This was disclosed by Dr. Jesus Canto, R1MC chief, after Jorge Emmanuel, lead international technical consultant of the UNDP Global Environment Facility called on him last Tuesday to announce the project.
R1MC is one of only three hospitals in the country to have the facility, Canto said, adding that the other one is the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital located in San Carlos City.
The third beneficiary of the project is a big government hospital in Metro Manila.
Canto said R1MC will provide the location including the needed infrastructures, as its counterpart to the project.
Saying the project is a big boon for the management and control of hazardous and infectious wastes, Canto stressed that the project will innovate on the present system R1MC has adopted in this area for the last two years.
The system of depositing the treated wastes in vault is working well but this will last only for three more years, Canto admitted.
R1MC and the privately-owned Villaflor Memorial Doctors Hospital were the only two hospitals in Pangasinan found by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to be taking care of their infectious and hazardous wastes.
The others have yet to put up their respective facilities with which to treat and store their hazardous wastes.
Canto said the UNDP project will provide the proper mechanism and treatment to prevent the release of hazardous dioxine and mercury into the soil, water and air, thus making the community safer.
At least one million dollars will be spent for the projects in the few pilot hospitals in the Philippines, Canto said, pointing out that the province of Pangasinan will get a lion’s share of the fund.
This was disclosed by Dr. Jesus Canto, R1MC chief, after Jorge Emmanuel, lead international technical consultant of the UNDP Global Environment Facility called on him last Tuesday to announce the project.
R1MC is one of only three hospitals in the country to have the facility, Canto said, adding that the other one is the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital located in San Carlos City.
The third beneficiary of the project is a big government hospital in Metro Manila.
Canto said R1MC will provide the location including the needed infrastructures, as its counterpart to the project.
Saying the project is a big boon for the management and control of hazardous and infectious wastes, Canto stressed that the project will innovate on the present system R1MC has adopted in this area for the last two years.
The system of depositing the treated wastes in vault is working well but this will last only for three more years, Canto admitted.
R1MC and the privately-owned Villaflor Memorial Doctors Hospital were the only two hospitals in Pangasinan found by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to be taking care of their infectious and hazardous wastes.
The others have yet to put up their respective facilities with which to treat and store their hazardous wastes.
Canto said the UNDP project will provide the proper mechanism and treatment to prevent the release of hazardous dioxine and mercury into the soil, water and air, thus making the community safer.
At least one million dollars will be spent for the projects in the few pilot hospitals in the Philippines, Canto said, pointing out that the province of Pangasinan will get a lion’s share of the fund.
