STAKEHOLDERS SEEK IMPROVED MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT

The improper handling of health care waste is growing problem in the country and other parts of the world and stakeholders have been discussing ways to tackle it and mitigate its effects on the society. According to reports, for many years about 99 per cent of health care wastes generated in Lagos State could not be accounted for suggesting that medical waste was being mixed with domestic waste or illegally dumped despite its high risk potential.

At this year’s National Health care waste summit hosted by the Lagos state waste management Authority, the risk of improper dumping of this class of waste was revisited. The forum had as its theme, ‘health care waste management and the environment’.