Southeast Asia
Health Care Without Harm: Leading the global movement for environmentally responsible health care

"First Do No Harm" ... Together with our partners around the world, Health Care Without Harm shares a vision of a health care sector that does no harm, and instead promotes the health of people and the environment. To that end, we are working to implement ecologically sound and healthy alternatives to health care practices that pollute the environment and contribute to disease. more

HCWH News

5 February 2013
HCWH-Asia Blog

Medical Waste Awareness at an All-time High in Nepal

Health Care Without Harm has been working with strategic partners Healthcare Foundation Nepal (HECAF) since 2008 and the issue has never been hotter. more 
4 February 2013
HCWH | Video

Video | Bir Hospital Transforms its Healthcare Waste Management

Kathmandu — Since 2010, Health Care Foundation Nepal (HECAF) and Health Care Without Harm, supported by the World Health Organisation, have been working with the leadership and staff of Bir Hospital to transform their healthcare waste management. more 

Environmental Health News

December 2013, Koreamed.org

Mercury Exposure among Garbage Workers in Southern Thailand

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31 December 2012, Himalayan News Service

Govt warns hospital to strictly manage waste

Excerpt: "Kathmandu, Nepal - The government has warned that it would shut hospitals failing to set up waste treatment plant."  more 

Reports and Publications

2 June 2011

WHO Releases Technical Guidance on Substituting Mercury Thermometers and Sphygmomanometers

WHO has issued a Technical Guidance Document for the safe substitution of non-mercury thermometers and sphygmomanometers in health-care settings. more 
17 March 2011
Health Care Without Harm

The Phase-out of Mercury Containing Devices in Philippine Hospitals

The Phase-out of Mercury Containing Devices in Philippine Hospitals more 
 
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