BEIRUT: Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk served a firm warning Wednesday to medical institutions over unsafe disposal of their hazardous medical waste after dangerous medical litter were discovered on the coast and mountainous areas.
“The minister urged all facilities that produce medical waste, including hospitals, medical labs and beauty centers, to inform the ministry about any violation of safety rules for the disposal of medical waste,” a ministry statement said.
Machnouk discussed the matter with the head of the Syndicate of Private Hospital Owners, Suleiman Haroun, asking him for the group’s cooperation in ensuring that hospitals abide by the rules of disposing their medical waste in a safe way that does not harm the environment, the statement said.
Machnouk stressed that the ministry would closely monitor how medical facilities and beauty centers were getting rid of their waste, vowing to prosecute any violators.
The statement quoted Haroun as assuring Machnouk that private hospitals were abiding fully by the rules and safety regulations of medical waste disposal, charging, instead, that medical labs and beauty institutes were the ones dumping their waste in the sea and the wild.
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