{"id":6817,"date":"2022-03-28T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T09:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medicalmate.net\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T09:39:24","slug":"swrha-chairman-delay-in-charge-causes-medical-waste-back-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/28\/swrha-chairman-delay-in-charge-causes-medical-waste-back-up\/","title":{"rendered":"SWRHA chairman: Delay in Charge causes medical waste back-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) Dr Lackram Bodoe Reported a back-up of medical waste in the San Fernando General Hospital had to do with a delay in payment to Your contractor Rather than the malfunctioning of the incinerator.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to complaints about the risks posed by the accumulated medical waste, which included amputated limbs, needles, and bloodstained items, Bodoe assured the 9 million incinerator installed last year was functioning well.<\/p>\n<p>He said it had been allowed to collect because daily paid employees refused to work on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with members of the media at SWRHA&#8217;s symposium on leadership in the Southern Academy of Performing Arts on Wednesday, Bodoe stated:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that I wish to provide the assurance that the incinerator itself is working nicely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a brand new incinerator which was installed last year and the issue had to do with a builder who was supposed to remove the crap and there was a delay of funding and that&#8217;s what created a temporary situation yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked how soon the problem will be rectified, he said:&#8221;I&#8217;ve only been given the assurance by the CEO that the issue has been dealt with as we speak, therefore that I anticipate at the end of the afternoon it&#8217;ll be sorted out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Bodoe stated the SWRHA was also contemplating introducing a new kind of technology, called the radio wave technologies for incineration, which was more air friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless a Public Service Association representative, who wished to remain anonymous, stated the incinerator had been breaking down on a regular basis since it had been installed last year and wasn&#8217;t working at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They even had to revert to the older incinerator and that&#8217;s dangerous and damaging to people operating that incinerator.<\/p>\n<p>He said employees took the actions on Tuesday since last week that they were assured that the garbage problem could have been piled.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) Dr Lackram Bodoe Reported a back-up of medical waste in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[1174,1340,1886,1282,1369,135,2058,2059,221,668,1180,1342,673,136,1816],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817"}],"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=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incinerators.hiclover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}