The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
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City of Rosario, HCWH Agree to Replace Chemicals in Hospitals
Arentina — HCWH and Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Founding Member, Rosario’s Department of Public Health (covering (52 municipal health centers, 5 hospitals, 2 maternities, and 1 ambulatory medical center) signed an agreement to promote the replacement of hazardous chemicals used in hospitals for safer alternatives.
The agreement, signed in the auditorium of the Dr. Roque Sáenz Peña Hospital (also Global Green and Healthy Hospital’s founding member), is a component of an HCWH project financed by UNEP’s Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management—SAICM to model sound chemicals management in the healthcare sector.
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Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of more than 500 organizations in 53 countries, working to transform the health care sector worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment. Visit the HCWH website for more information.
