No license will be issued to any health care facility next year unless they are able to persuade officials of the Ministry of Health that they have mechanisms in place to deal with hazardous waste.And this move, Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy said,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, is in accordance with the Health Facilities Licensing Act.The Act was brought into existence so as to allow the Ministry of Health to ensure that health facilities operate in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Health Ministry.According to Minister Ramsammy the license for a hospital includes the need for occupational health and safety measures.As a result, he disclosed that health facilities must have a safe way to deal with their waste or risk not being licensed. “Either you develop your own means or you can access ours at a cost, but you have no choice. Your license is dependent on it. Unless you are able to persuade us that you can have a safe way to deal with your garbage your license will be withdrawn, it is as simple as that,Cheap NBA Store,” the minister asserted.He pointed to the fact that the Ministry of Health has over time chosen to do things in a most friendly way, even as he warned that the Ministry’s current style of operation will not be infinite.“Don’t mistake our willingness to incrementally introduce these things, and by giving people time, as a lack of will to enforce it. Do not mistake the process of incremental enforcement as a time-infinite process,Wholesale Jerseys,” Dr Ramsammy warned.He disclosed that for the rest of the year the Ministry will continue its traditional understanding trend, but will take on a firm stance in the new year if persons do not comply with its request.And the process will not be perfect initially, the Minister emphasised, even as he noted that with time sophisticated systems would be developed to deal with waste. He however asserted that adequate provision must be put in place to ensure that things are moving apace.It is for this very reason, the Minister said,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, that the Environment Health Department of the Ministry of Health is undergoing massive structural changes, whereby those sanitary inspection roles are now dealing with Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) within the sector.And since the OH&S changes goes beyond just putting things in place, the Minister highlighted that there is need for health workers to be properly educated.“I used to be appalled at how we dealt with biological waste. At the Georgetown Public Hospital there was some attempt to sterilise them first before getting rid of them but generally in Guyana people used to deal with these biological waste such as syringes as domestic waste. And while the public sector was acutely aware and adopted a policy of ‘you didn’t see you didn’t know’, the private sector got rid of their waste with absolute abandonment,” the Minister reflected.And in order to reverse the unethical practice, Dr. Ramsammy noted that the Ministry is on a mission to ensure that every health facility in Guyana,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, ranging from a health post to a large hospital, has mechanisms in place to deal with their waste.“We have developed our own prototype in some cases and we have adopted some prototypes for use in our hospital,Cheap NFL Jerseys China,” the Minister disclosed.In this regard,Cheap Jerseys 2018, he revealed that the Ministry has adopted a Hydroclave System, which will be installed to sterilize all waste.The waste materials, the Minister said, will be subjected to various other actions such as pulverising before they could be discarded safely.As part of the OH&S move, the Minister noted that the ministry is prepared to put an end to the use of incinerators as is customary at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.