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.

Where all the waste- apart from that scavenged by rag-pickers- used to go untreated into the municipal system, now the hospital recycles the majority of the non-infectious waste, biodigests food residues and disinfects the remainder safely.

While HECAF led the project, trained the hospital staff and oversaw the implementation from day to day, HCWH has worked closely with them and provided technical expertise on issues from validating the disinfection processes, reporting, biodigestion and chemical disposal. This short video, by filmmaker Russ Pariseau, gives a brief snapshot of the phenomenal progress they have made.

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.