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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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