(HOSPITAL WASTE MANAGEMENT. City of San Fernando Mayor Edwin “EdSa” Santiago and Faye Ferrer of the Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)-Asia hold the copy of the Memorandum of Agreement on the implementation of Health Care Waste Management to the city local hospitals. Joining them is Regina Rodriguez, OIC- City Environment and Natural Resources Office. Photo courtesy of Health Care Without Harm.)
City of San Fernando Mayor Edwin “Edsa” Santiago has called on health care institutions to implement proper waste management in their respective establishments.
This, after Santiago signed in behalf of the city a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)-Asia in a bid to implement “Health Care Waste Management” in local hospitals within the capital city.
This is another measure of the City Government of San Fernando towards sustainable waste management, this time in local health care providers and institutions.
The MOA states that HCWH will conduct a city-wide audit on hospital wastes as part of its assistance to the city government.
City Councilor BJ Lagman, Chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Environmental Protection, Natural Resources Waterways and Flooding Intervention, expressed that this will give way to a “strengthened policies and legislations and an enhanced partnership among the city government and hospitals in San Fernando.”
The HCWH and the City Environment and Natural Resources Office, meanwhile, spearheaded an orientation on the project involving administrators of some local hospitals in the city. This will be followed by several major activities including trainings and workshops.
Santiago, for his part, said that “this is a big leap for the city’s efforts in waste management.”
“Following our remarkable action in ecological solid waste management as a whole, we give emphasis on the aspect of health care waste management because we are talking about the welfare of the hospital patients and personnel,” Santiago said.
He expressed gratitude to the environmental organization for extending their help, and hoped for CSF hospitals to commit to this new project.
“To HCWH, we are beyond thankful for this partnership and we assure the whole party that CSF will continuously find ways to combat problems that destroy the environment, with the commitment of our local hospitals,” he added.
