(Fighting new crown pneumonia) Will medical waste affect the environment? Does medical wastewater pollute water sources? Official response focus topic
China News Service, Beijing, March 11th: Does medical waste affect the environment? Does medical wastewater pollute water sources? Official response focus topic
China News Agency reporter Yu Zhanyi and Li Yanan
Does medical waste affect the environment? Will medical wastewater pollute water sources? Officially respond to relevant issues of public concern.
Zhao Qunying, director of the Emergency Management Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, stated at a press conference held by the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council on the 11th: "At present, the disposal of medical waste and medical wastewater is stable and has no adverse impact on the environment.
"The Ministry of Ecology and Environment is tightly focused on two hundred percent, one is 100% full coverage of environmental supervision and services of all medical institutions and facilities across the country; the second is the timely and effective collection, transfer, and disposal of medical wastewater and medical waste, and is fully implemented. Detailed environmental protection work related to the prevention and control of the epidemic situation. "Zhao Qunying said that before the outbreak, the total national medical waste disposal capacity was 4902.8 tons / day, which has now increased to 6022 tons / day, an increase of 23%.
After the epidemic, Hubei and Wuhan increased with a large number of cases, and the accompanying medical waste also increased rapidly. It is understood that before the outbreak, the amount of medical waste generated in Wuhan was more than 40 tons per day. After the epidemic, the highest peak of medical waste production reached more than 240 tons / day.
In Sichuan's largest medical waste disposal center, workers are busy processing the "infected" medical waste sent here in an orderly manner. The picture shows workers being "fully armed". Photo by Zhang Lang
Zhao Qunying said that through the joint efforts of various departments, the disposal capacity of medical waste in Wuhan has increased from the initial 50 tons / day to the current 263.8 tons / day, and the medical waste generated every day can be treated every day.
In terms of medical wastewater treatment, Zhao Qunying said that the medical wastewater generated in designated hospitals and square cabin hospitals must first be disinfected. The square cabin hospital was equipped with a sewage treatment device during the construction process, and the designated hospitals had inherent pollution treatment facilities. The septic tank at the isolation point is also disinfected.
At present, there are still some deficiencies in the level of medical waste treatment and disposal capacity in some regions of the country, including overload, full load, or near full load operation.
Over time, many communities have implemented closed management. How to deal with the large amount of domestic garbage and discarded masks generated at present to prevent secondary pollution to the ecological environment is also a concern of the general public.
Liu Lifeng, deputy director of the Urban Construction Department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China, said that it is necessary to strictly monitor the classification and transportation of domestic garbage, increase the daily disinfection and disinfection of sanitation collection, transfer and treatment facilities, and increase the frequency of domestic garbage collection and transportation. Ensure that domestic garbage can be collected, transported, and disposed of in a timely and safe manner; domestic garbage generated in key places such as centralized observation points and home isolation observation points should be collected by dedicated vehicles and transported to the domestic garbage incineration plant for timely treatment to avoid Secondary pollution.
"At present, the daily average volume of domestic garbage removal and transportation in Hubei Province exceeds 31,000 tons, which achieves the daily output of Nissan. Among them, the daily volume of domestic garbage in Wuhan is about 6,000 tons, and the harmless treatment rate is 100%," said Liu Lifeng.
Regarding the treatment of masks by the public, Liu Lifeng said that the discarded masks produced in residential quarters, offices, and shopping malls can continue to be collected and transferred as other garbage in domestic garbage, but it is necessary to strengthen the killing of release and collection facilities. . (Finish)