8 July 2009
Luanda — Health units should improve the management of hospital waste for the well-being of the public health, said Wednesday the provincial health director of Luanda, Vita Vemba.
Vita Vemba said this to Angop on the sidelines of the provincial meeting on the management of hospital waste, aimed at equipping the professionals.
According to him, the garbage is like other useless materials generated by the human activity and which is required to be eliminated, but the hospital-generated garbage which contains
infectious proprieties should properly be handled for the wellbeing of the people's health.
He added that the garbage produced in the hospitals can convey parasite-related diseases and hepatitis, and is also favourable in reproduction of the vectors transmitting the diseases and where develop toxic substances, foul smell and polluting the air we breath.
The two-week meeting gathers 90 professionals from Luanda health units.
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