Hospital waste in the bin and trees, Delvina hospital is fined

2024-01-26 22:54:00, Denoncim CNA

For several weeks, the show "Stop" has been investigating how hospital waste is managed in hospitals and health centers. From a random observation at Delvina hospital "Ismet Shushi", it can be seen that this hospital takes the dangerous waste to the garbage bins, or even worse, to the spaces planted with plants and trees.

Head Nurse: Where is the hospital waste here?

Reporter: Here we have it here 1. Is this allowed to be thrown here?

Head Nurse: No, it's not allowed. Across from us is the hospital waste room.

Journalist: Please, as head nurse, follow me and tell me that these remains do not belong to you. What is this? What is this here?

Head nurse: These are ampoules. I don't know why they are here.

Journalist: Why was this in this bin?

Head nurse: Maybe by mistake, I don't know.

Reporter: As a head nurse, you should know that hospital waste is not disposed of like this. They have that bag…

Head nurse: As for my part as head nurse, I have well organized...

Journalist: Is this bin here for urban waste?

Head Nurse: Yes.

Journalist: We are opening it to look at it. See how much hazardous hospital waste is not allowed to be thrown away.

Head nurse: We haven't had any problems like that, but I told you…

Reporter: We saw the sanitation worker fill the bag and take it to the big bin.

Head nurse: I don't want to make excuses at all, I know it's a mistake that...

Journalist: Do you know that it is a legal violation in the first place?

Nurse: Definitely, we will discuss and solve this for sure.

After the announcement of the "Stop" show, the Delvina Police Station made available experts in the field, who considered this denunciation extremely serious.

"This was considered a crime scene. The law on hazardous hospital waste produced by health facilities does not criminally tolerate what happened in this hospital. All this waste that is mixed with urban waste, all goes into the environment, endangering people, animals and plants."

Journalist: We are currently located at the hospital in Delvina and we have found the presence of dangerous hospital waste, mismanaged by the staff of this institution. Please, as inspectorates, what will you do next?

Director of the ISSH: I will send the inspection team. We will talk to you, we will be in touch, thank you.

Inspector: We have to thank you first for this part. Now these problems begin, so that they don't pay, it seems to the company. They are heavy, there are some things that surprised us too because it is a small hospital that does not have problems of this nature. Thank you to you. We will continue our procedure, you will hear very soon.

In connection with the case, 4 nurses of this hospital were criminally prosecuted for "abuse of duty" and "waste management".

"Specialists for the Investigation of Crimes of the Delvina Police Station referred the materials to the Prosecutor's Office, where the proceedings began in a free state for the criminal offenses "Abuse of duty" and "Waste management", for the citizens of the UK, 30 years old, Sh. G., 39 years old, GH, 28 years old and AS, 33 years old, all four working as nurses in Delvina hospital. Criminal proceedings were initiated against these citizens after, thanks to the cooperation with the journalists of the investigative show "Stop", on TV Klan, the services of the Delvina Police Station have established that hospital waste was dumped in the interior of the Delvina hospital, where these citizens work. contrary to the law. The procedural materials were passed to the Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction of Sarandë, for further actions , the police announced.

On the other hand, the ISS Vlora sent the inspection group to the country, which found that hospital waste is not managed in accordance with the legal provisions and therefore imposed an administrative measure of 10 million Lek on the Municipal Hospital of Delvina./tvklan