Benin/Medical waste management: Afd and Enabel equip the Dassa-Zoumè area hospital with an incinerator
As part of the implementation of the project <><Ensemble pour une Qualité des Soins Inclusive et Transparente, orienté vers l’Egalité Genre>a modern semi-electric incinerator is acquired for the benefit of the Dassa-Glazoué zone hospital</Ensemble>.
Through this support, the Agence française de développement (Afd), which is the main donor, is contributing to better management of waste from infectious risk care activities produced by the Dassa-Zoumé-Glazoué Zone Hospital and surrounding private and public health facilities.Through this support, the Agence française de développement (AFD), which is the main donor, is contributing to better management of waste from infectious risk care activities produced by the Dassa-Zoumé-Glazoué Zone Hospital and the surrounding private and public health facilities. Other structures were also supported: the Health Committee of the health zones received office equipment and supplies and the National Platform of Health Service Users received 50 tablets for complaint management and satisfaction surveys. All these donations to the population of the hills will help to achieve an essential part of the project's result, namely the promotion of quality promotional, preventive and curative health services in relation to non-transmissible diseases and emergency obstetrical and neonatal care, taking into account the specific needs of women, adolescents, and children in the hills with improved patient accountability.
The Intervention Manager of the EQUITY project, Samuel Van STEITERGHEM, made it known that this is not the first time that the EQUITY project has thought about the populations of the Collines. << Those who are on the ground know this well. Waste is a fundamental problem. It accumulates in homes, households and even hospitals >> he added. In addition he welcomes the strengthening of the role that the population has in contributing to quality care through modern tools that will allow the digital use to the most efficient collette of data.
The opportunity was also for the Departmental Director of Health Collines Dr. Codjo DANDONOUGBO to make known that the incinerator is not only for the Zone Hospital of Dassa-Zoumè, given its capacity and performance. Its use will be in all health centers in the health zone to solve the problem of medical waste management. That is why he << invites the team of the health zone to work so that the project of mutualization of its use is concretized >>. He finally expressed the availability of the departmental direction of health Collines to advocate with partners for the improvement of working conditions of health workers without forgetting those socio-health of the populations.
For the coordinating doctor of the Dassa-Glazoué health zone, Dr. Akpovi Jacques HOUNGNONVI, a mechanism has already been put in place so that the health facilities can The public and private health facilities in the area bring their waste to the hospital to be incinerated.
He expressed his gratitude to the donor and promised to use them efficiently without any discrimination.
The representative of the mayor of Dassa-Zoumè, Osée AKPAKI and the president of the Health Committee Kayodé Olivier DANVI, after thanking the donors, wished that the marriage between Enabel and the health zone would have a better tomorrow.
It should be noted that the incinerator and the protective shelter, the two tricycles to ensure the transport of medical waste, the 50 shelves and office equipment and supplies cost about 92 500 000 CFA francs. This funding from AFD shows the solidarity of the French people with the people of Benin.
Source: matinlibre.com
