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As a result of a policy issued by the Delhi Department of Health and Family Welfare in 2007, all…

The City of São Paulo is the first in Brazil to eliminate the use of devices containing mercury in…

The Buenos Aires city Government which runs the largest health care system in Argentina, is…

NGO joint letter on third party participation within the REACH authorisation process.

NGOs Position Paper on the EC proposal for a Medical Device Regulation COM(212) 542

Ideas for Purchasing in the Health care Sector

The study examined waste management practices during the PMEC in 19 documentation sites representing…

Joint report from Friends of the Earth Australia and Health Care Without Harm on nanosilver.

- Makati City, Metro ManilaAiming to be the 1st Green Hospital in the Philippines with solar power air conditioning and cell site, Makati Medical Center started mercury phase-out upon receipt of AO 21 in the office of Medical Director Dr. Benjamin N. Alimurung.Dr. Alimurung immediately collaborated with the hospital’s Facility Management and Engineering Department, Purchasing Department, Hospital Waste Management Subcommittee and Total Quality Services Division to create the Mercury Management team. The team immediately discontinued distribution of mercury thermometers in the patient’s admission and discharge kits and conducted a mercury audit. After a month, the Mercury Minimization Program was in full swing.The Basic and Advance Course on Pollution Control given ty the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) also introduces the issue of mercury phase-out in the hospitalThe transition was gradual-each month, the Nursing Service Officer schedules with the Purchasing department the number of mercury...