{"id":6358,"date":"2021-07-21T16:02:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medicalmate.net\/?p=6358"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:02:53","slug":"adjumani-hospital-incinerator-blows-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/21\/adjumani-hospital-incinerator-blows-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjumani Hospital incinerator blows up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADJUMANI.<\/p>\n<p>For the past four months, support staff in the hospital have been dumping medical waste within the enclosure of the incinerator rather than burning it.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital administrator, Mr Michael Ojja, told Daily Monitor on Wednesday the incinerator resigned because of continuous burning of collected waste from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The waste has grown due to the overwhelming number of admissions and individuals visiting the hospital section. However, we must find solutions to protect the staff and environment,&#8221; Ojja said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the incinerator was too small to dispose of the hospital&#8217;s voluminous medical waste.<\/p>\n<p>Patients admitted to the general ward next to the incinerator expressed fear of ailments arising from bad disposal of toxic medical waste.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2013-2014 yearly health industry performance report, Adjumani Hospital registers 11,731 in-patients, 83,953 outpatients and 1,695 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>Scientific facts<br \/>\nIncineration of heavy metals or materials with high metal content (in particular lead, mercury and cadmium) releases toxic metals to the environment and the burnt medical waste contains micro-organisms that are potentially harmful to human beings, according to WHO.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADJUMANI. For the past four months, support staff in the hospital have been dumping medical waste within the enclosure of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[1345,606,1346,351,1347,517,135,221,1348,1349,581,668,583,838,136],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}