An advanced waste treatment system capable of treating 750 cubic meters
of waste water per day operating since June 2014 has markedly raised
sanitary standards for Long An province’s general hospital.
The system installed comes as part of a 22.5 billion VND project on
hospital waste treatment funded by the World Bank and run by the Health
Ministry that was carried out in the Mekong Delta province of Long An
and several other localities.
The province’s 900-bed
general hospital, which provides treatment for not only local people
but also those coming from neighbouring areas, discharges 800kg of solid
waste, over 8kg of hazardous waste, and 470 cubic of meters of waste
water on a daily basis.
Meanwhile, its waste water
treatment system using microbiological technology is able to treat 350
cubic of meters of waste water per day and fails to treat toxic
chemicals released into the environment.
The new
waste treatment system, apart from addressing overload suffered by the
old system, saw treated waste water and solid waste meeting national
technical and environmental regulations.
Director
General of the Long An hospital Vo Cong Luan said investments in
cutting-edge equipment, as well as in human resources, have reduced the
risks of epidemic outbreak.-VNA