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Moldovan medical institutions do not know what to do with medical waste

Daily hospital waste - used syringes, bandages, bottles and containers for analysis becomes a real problem for health care facilities.

Waste must be disposed, but the hospital did not have the requisite facilities and equipment. All the accumulated garbage is taken to the refuse dump or burnt in the open.

Head of Chisinau Health Mihai Moldoveanu, said: "We do not have this capability. This question has been debated for many years: to create an institution that will accept biological waste and recycle them so that they are not thrown in the cemetery.

In Moldova more than 20 tons of medical waste are accumulated each year