No fewer than 100 health care workers at various hospitals in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are infected with HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, due to poor management of healthcare waste, according to the FCT Administration.
The administration noted that over time, poor health care waste management at hospitals in the nation’s capital had been a public concern, and as a result most of the health personnel are prone to HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and so many other infections.
According to the Secretary, Health and Human Services, of the FCTA, Dr. Demola Onakomaiya, only about 60 to 70 per cent of hospitals in the FCT had incinerators, which is one of the components of health care waste management.
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The Secretary made the disclosure on the heels of the approval of the FCTA to formulate FCT Waste Management Policy, to holistically manage both solid and liquid wastes within the 8,000 square kilometers of the Territory.
“Other hospitals resort to the “burn and bury’’ method, saying that in the next two quarters of the year every hospital in the Territory would have at least one incinerator,” he added.
By Stanley Onyekwere
Peoples Peoples Daily
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