Mayor Nicholas Yulo and Vice Mayor Ramon Torres led on Friday the blessing and inauguration of a P16.8 million Hazardous and Special Waste Treatment Facility at the vicinity of Bago City Hospital.
Initiated by the City Environment Management Office (CEMO), the treatment facility includes a thermal decomposition machine, which will cater to hazardous and special waste of the local government-run hospital and those coming from private laboratories in Bago City.
City Environment Management Officer Vicente Mesias, who was also present at the blessing and inauguration, said that the management of infectious, special, and hazardous wastes is mandated by law.
Mesias stressed that hospitals and medical laboratories are supposed to have mechanisms and facilities to manage such waste, from disinfection, storage, transport, processing, and disposal.
“Bago City Hospital is the first local government unit managed facility to acquire and use this thermal decomposition technology in Negros,” he said, adding that “this facility will likewise accommodate medical and infectious wastes from private sources, thereby ensuring its better management and avoiding the spread of illnesses.”
Also present were Councilors Ma. Femmy Alvarez-Martir and Carlos Mondia, Bago City Hospital Chief Dr. Jesus Rey Pacilan, Provincial Environment Management Office (PEMO) Supervising Management Specialist Program Management Division Dr. Eriberto Madayag, and Environment Management Bureau – Provincial Environmental Monitoring Unit (EMB-PEMU) Head Jumar Tabita, among others, a press statement from the Bago City Public Information Office said.*
