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| Participants of the sensitization seminar hosted by the Ministry of Health |
Charlestown Nevis (August 17, 2006) Senior Administrative staff and other health officials in the Ministry of Health assembled at the Alexandra Hospital Conference Room earlier today for a sensitization seminar on bio medical waste management.
Speaking to the Government Information Services, Mr. Eddison Garraway, Solid Waste Consultant of Trinidad expressed that he was on the island to conduct a bio waste management plan for the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis and that it was part of the national initiative for HIV/AIDS prevent and control project.
"The objective here is to establish a system which is a component of the whole initiative," said Garraway, adding that there would be there main aspects from the project which would include training programmes for all the operational and administrative people in biomedical waste management as well as the development of an implementation plan for the system.
"The key here is really the training which is going to be putting out the information on the various aspects of biomedical waste management, generation, collection and transportation treatment and disposal," said Galloway.
The Solid Waste Consultant pointed out that waste management was an integral part of the society and that if it was not properly disposed, could have serious ill effects on the community. He was accompanied by Ms Sharon Gillard of the Ministry of Health in St. Kitts.
~~Adz:Right~~Ms Gillard expressed that the Consultant would be working with the health sectors and other private places that have bio medical waste and to put together some procedures and standards in disposal of bio medical waste and other normal waste in the Federation.
She also expressed that at the end of the sessions, a report would be compiled and put forward so that a standard method of waste disposal would be put into place for both islands. The Health Department on St. Kitts held its sensitization seminar earlier this week. The project is being funded by the World Bank.
