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Chile: Ministry of Health Issues National Guidance for Mercury-free Health Care
With 27 hospitals already substituting mercury-based medical devices as part of the Mercury-Free Hospitals Project, Chile's Ministry of Health has moved toward a national substitution policy.
With 60% of the country's hospitals having already signed a pledge to switch over, the Ministry has issued a guidance document to take all 206 of the country's public hospitals mercury-free. The policy requires that all institutions conduct mercury inventories, develop mercury spill management polices, and begin a progressive switch-over to digital thermometers and sphygmomanometers by the end of 2011.
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