The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Facilities Management Department will be aggressively pursuing private hospitals and clinics to ensure that they use the hydroclave waste treatment facility, before final disposal.
In an interview with Clean and Green Guyana, GPHC Waste Management Consultant Rufus Lewis said although workshops have been held to educate private medical entities about the system, many have not been utilising this service. He believes that some of these institutions have been bypassing this process because there is currently “no legislation in place to compel them to do so.”
The hydroclave system is designed to sterilise all infectious waste produced from public and private health care facilities in
