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Together with health care leaders in Australia, Brazil, China and Europe, HCWH held a series of launch events for Global Green and Healthy Hospitals. The global network, which aims to protect public and environmental health by fostering greater sustainability in the healthcare sector, now has members representing the interests of more than 4,000 hospitals on five continents. more |
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HCWH, environmentalists and healthcare advocates called on the Philippine Department of Health to remove the inclusion of pyrolysis and/or burning in its revised Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) Manual as an option for dealing with medical wastes, stressing that the provision violates the spirit and intent of the Clean Air Act of 1999.
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HCWH partner organization, groundWork, has endeavored to work with health practitioners to get them to understand chemical
exposure in their patients as possibly arising from the work environment.
Overall, 289 clinical health care and environmental
health workers in Durban, South Africa, have been trained.
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Seventeen leading hospitals, together with four major health systems representing eighty-two more, joined forces to launch Global Green and Healthy Hospitals in Brazil this past week. The launch ceremony took place at the 5th Annual Brazilian Healthy Hospitals conference organized by HCWH partner organization Projeto Hospitais Saudaveis.
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Sweden: More than 350 attendees from 34 countries and 5 continents met for CleanMed Europe 2012 in Malmö, Sweden last week to discuss and share best practice of sustainable healthcare provision in Europe and beyond. Sixteen parallel sessions enabled participants to learn and connect to leaders in the field of green procurement, PVC replacement strategies, energy solutions, non-toxic healthcare, responsible supply chain management, and leadership in healthcare. more |
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Health professionals are concerned that the current U.S. regulatory system, which has not been updated in more than 35 years, is not adequate to respond to increasing evidence of links between chemical exposures and a wide range of diseases and health conditions. "The health care sector is actually looking for federal regulators to be their partners in helping to protect public health," said Rachel Gibson, Director, Health Care Without Harm Safer Chemicals Program. more |
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Joining a UN gathering addressing chemical safety issues, HCWH released a report that promotes the substitution of chemicals with safer alternatives in the health care sector. The report release coincided with an intervention on the floor of the Third International Conference on Chemicals Management by HCWH South East Asia chemical policy coordinator Faye Ferrer. more |
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