Central Organization for Statistics will performed environmental survey for medical services activity in Iraq soon

To protect patients and staffs of health institutions from environmental pollution risks

 

The Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology/ Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation put the final arrangements to begin implementation of the environmental survey of the medical services activity in Iraq in 2008 in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, an initial plan have been drafting of detailed objectives includes timing, mechanism of work, training of cadres, preparation of requirements, field implementation and Finally, the preparation of reports and the release of the results.

 
An official source in COSIT declares that the implementation of the survey will last for six months and includes all Iraqi governorates and Kurdistan region, this survey aimed to assess the realities of medical waste management in health institutions to make use of making plans and strategies of environmental realities advancement and reach the goal of protecting the environment and society from risks.

 
The source point out the provision of such statistical indicators about the reality of healthy environment in Iraq comes through knowledge the numbers of inpatients and patients consulted to health institutions, knowledge of numbers, quantities and category of commodity requirements that supplies and used in those institutions and what types of waste, according to the International Classification that approved by World Health Organization and the calculation of quantities and numbers of waste. Also clarified that the survey will assist the beneficiaries are(the Ministries of Health and Ministries of Environment) to informing the current method that used in the management, treatment and disposal of medical waste and the extent to which this method identity for valid environmental legislation, and knowledge of consumed and surplus water quantities within the organization also method of disposal from it, in addition to knowledge of the appropriate administrative system charge of waste management and environmental education levels.  

The source added that the environmental survey project will provide a lot of statistical data on the status of medical waste management within the medical institutions to help the stakeholders and decision makers to develop waste management system, in addition to providing sufficient information on points of imbalances and weaknesses in environmental legislation and regulations that needed to protect the environment of hospitals and to protect patients and workers from the risks of dealing with waste and in the first class protection the external environment.