disposal of clinical waste contaminated with Ebola

[Sony SO]

Dear All,

As US had some hiccups for the collection and disposal of clinical waste contaminated with Ebola, hence we are reviewing our clinical waste collection, transportation and disposal plan, and to fix potential loopholes as soon as possible, if identified. And our findings reveal to disposal clinical waste with larger size (larger than clinical waste bag) would cause problems.

With reference to US practices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v_0yWNcpWbU8, they pack the mattress with plastic sheet and to discard it.

I would like to know your prevailing practices for how to disposal special items for example mattress, fabric sofa (with vomitus) contaminated with Ebola, whether we need to pour some bleach solution, or we just to follow the US practices (contain/wrap the items with plastic sheet).

Yours sincerely,

Sony SO

Nursing Officer, Infection Control Branch (Team 2)

Centre for Health Protection

http://www.chp.gov.hk/tc/cindex.html

HONG KONG SAR, CHINA

office phone: +852 2125-2922; fax: +852 3523-0752

HA email sony@ha.org.hk; DH email no_icb4@dh.gov.hk
Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

________________________________
***************************************************************************
Disclaimer

This Email may contain privileged and confidential information and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not print, copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this Email by mistake, please notify the sender and then delete this Email from your computer. The Hospital Authority does not accept liability arising from Email transmitted by mistake.

Although this Email and any attachments are believed to be free of virus or other defects that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free, and no responsibility is accepted by the Hospital Authority for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use.

All views or opinions expressed in this Email and its attachments are those of the sender and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Hospital Authority.
***************************************************************************

MESSAGES POSTED TO THIS LIST ARE SOLELY THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR, AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINION OF ACIPC.

The use of trade/product/commercial brand names through the list is discouraged by ACIPC. If you wish to discuss specific reference to products or services by brand or commercial names, please do this outside the list.

Archive of all messages are available at http://aicalist.org.au/archives – registration and login required.

Replies to this message will be directed back to the list. To create a new message send an email to aicalist@aicalist.org.au

To send a message to the list administrator send an email to aicalist-request@aicalist.org.au.

You can unsubscribe from this list be sending ‘signoff aicalist’ (without the quotes) to listserv@aicalist.org.au

[Author]

Posts