AMA to Korle-Bu's rescue
Accra, Feb. 21, 2012
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is due to dislodge tons of medical waste at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
This follows a breakdown of the hospital’s waste treatment plant which has been used by the hospital for so many years now.
The hospital, which will turn 90 next year, has been battling with its medical waste disposal, thus serving as a health threat to patients and residents in and around the hospital’s premises.
Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Nii Otu Nartey, says the difficulty being faced by the hospital in the discharge of its liquid waste was due to the planning of the hospital’s sewage system, which according to him, were all covered with weeds and plants.
“The pipes have been underground for so long and most of them are now broken and there are areas where the system is blocked.”
In the long term, the hospital is looking forward to a collaboration with a Canadian Energy Management Company and Zoomlion that will lead to the generation of 100 tones of waste into power daily to the hospital on sustainable basis.
Aisha Ibrahim, e.tv Ghana news
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