A subsidiary of Jospong Group of Companies, Zoomlion Medical Waste has began proper disposal of medical waste generated from the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination exercise in the Eastern Region.
The three-day exercise, in collaboration with government through the public health department of the Ministry of Health, was to avoid possible public health crises in the region.
The Communications and Corporate Affairs Manager of Zoomlion, Ms Emma Osei Duah, in an interview with the media said her outfit has provided a number of waste bins to the various vaccination centres across the region to collect their waste.
“We have visited centres in Mampong, Adukrom, Koforidua and Ayensuano, among others to provide them with colour coded bin liners and dustbins to collect their medical waste after the vaccination exercise,” she said.
Ms Duah stated that this was being done according to the World Health Organisation standards, adding that specially trained officers from her outfit would collect the waste generated at the vaccination centres and carry them in specialised vehicles to treatment facilities where they would treat them through sterilisation.
“After the sterilisation, if the waste is certified to be safe then we will dispose them off in specialised waste van for onward safe disposal in Accra,” she added.
Ms Duah said that “this exercise will help to remove potentially infectious waste that would have been thrown out there and would have polluted the environment and spread COVID-19.
She added that the exercise would help to contain the spread of COVID-19, and assured that her outfit would manage it properly.
For his part, the New Juaben South Municipal Manager for Zoomlion, Mr Edward Boamah said all 11 centres in the municipality have been given 22 waste bins for the collection of the medical waste.
He called on other stakeholders in the health sector to co-operate with their officers for the proper disposal of the waste.
FROM AMA TEKYIWAA AMPADU AGYEMAN, KOFORIDUA