Healthcare Waste Report - Environment Health
Healthcare Waste Report - Environment Health
Healthcare Waste Report - Environment Health
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VIETNAM 12<br />
<strong><strong>Health</strong>care</strong> Facilities in Vietnam<br />
Type of healthcare facilities<br />
Number of<br />
healthcare<br />
facilities<br />
Bed<br />
strength<br />
<strong><strong>Health</strong>care</strong><br />
staff<br />
MoH-administrated 30 12,680 13,229<br />
Hospital 26<br />
Regional polyclinic 1<br />
Convalescence and<br />
rehabilitation hospital<br />
Other facility 2<br />
PDoH-administrated 12,259 166,257 145,342<br />
Hospital 800<br />
Regional polyclinic 857<br />
Convalescence and<br />
rehabilitation hospital<br />
1<br />
34<br />
Ward healthcare station 10,516<br />
Other facility 52<br />
Other sectors 860 17,374 7,434<br />
Hospital 30<br />
Regional polyclinic 23<br />
Convalescence and<br />
rehabilitation hospital<br />
18<br />
Other facility* 789<br />
Total 13,149 196,311 166,005<br />
* Details to be confirmed by country representative<br />
CHAPTER 3_COUNTRY ANALYSIS<br />
MANAGEMENT OF<br />
HEALTHCARE WASTE<br />
<strong><strong>Health</strong>care</strong> waste in Vietnam is<br />
classified as general waste, clinic<br />
waste, radioactive waste, chemical<br />
waste, and compressed air containers.<br />
However, no reliable data is available<br />
about the share of healthcare waste<br />
that can be determined as hazardous<br />
waste. <strong><strong>Health</strong>care</strong> waste investigated<br />
in several hospitals in Hanoi consists<br />
mainly of biogenetic material. Clinic<br />
waste is divided into five groups:<br />
Group A - infectious waste<br />
Group B - sharps items<br />
Group C - clinical waste<br />
Group D - pharmaceutical waste<br />
Group E - human and animal<br />
tissues and body parts.<br />
Radioactive waste is any solid, liquid,<br />
gaseous or pathological waste<br />
contaminated with radioactive<br />
isotopes of any kind.Chemical waste is<br />
divided into two groups; nonhazardous<br />
and hazardous chemical<br />
wastes. General wastes are the waste<br />
generated from in-patient or outpatient<br />
activities.<br />
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