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About Specialized Unit

The Healthcare Waste Management Unit, which is affiliated with the Unit for Treatment, Examinations, Training, and Paid Research Services at Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, was established in 2010. The unit holds a license from the Ministry of Environment No. 1887 on 5/26/2009.

About 1.5 tons of hazardous medical waste is processed daily in the unit using shredding and sterilization technology. The shredding and sterilization technology used in the unit is considered one of the safest and most widespread technology for treating hazardous medical waste and helps improve air quality by reducing gaseous emissions resulting from incineration treatment, in accordance with international specifications determined by international environmental agreements signed by the Egyptian government. It is also considered less cost of incinerators conforming to international specifications.

The unit contains two devices for treating hazardous medical waste with shredding and sterilization technology of French origin (ECODAS-T300), made of stainless steel and equipped with a computer program to ensure effective operation and reduce human intervention in operating the devices. Through them, all types of infectious waste, blood, and pathological samples are treated. Within the unit, the highest standards of quality and infection control are applied.

The unit consists of a meeting room, a dressing room for its employees, a devices area, another for washing trolleys, a third one for receiving wastes, a store for the unit’s detergents and disinfectants, and a room for collecting the shredding and sterilizing products.

Mission

Maintaining the safe handling of health waste at the institute at the standard level.
Treating hazardous waste arising from the hospital and the institute’s laboratories.
Helping other hospitals get rid of their hazardous wastes in exchange for a little fee, generates additional income for the institute and contributes to providing better medical care to patients.
Self-financing for device maintenance and providing unit-specific supplies.

Vision

Protecting human health and the environment by providing a healthy life free or with limited pollution by treating and safely disposing of hazardous waste resulting from healthcare activities.

The unit also seeks to achieve the goals of sustainable development by using shredding and sterilization technology, which is considered the most appropriate for treating hazardous medical waste as it is safer and more widespread, This technology helps improve air quality by reducing gaseous emissions resulting from incineration treatment and in accordance with international specifications determined by international environmental agreements signed by the Egyptian government, and this is within the framework of the state’s plan to preserve human health and the environment and in implementation of the government’s program to support the environmental dimension, which represents an essential pivot in Egypt's vision 2030.