Health Care Waste Management in Africa Today Automated
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Health Care Waste Management in Africa Today Automated Medical Waste Tracking How to effectively utilize technology to manage waste: - From source to destruction 1
Bad Press Reports • 27 Feb 2001: Extract from Business Day • “. . . little control over how medical waste is stored, handled or disposed of…” Mr Khanyile – Provincial Environmental Health Director • “…province had been plagued by several incidents of illegal dumping of medical waste…”- Mr Eddie Hanekom – Dept of Health, Western Cape 2
Gauteng Health Care Waste Management Regulations • Final Draft published on 10 June 2003: “Tracking Documents, Reporting, Record Keeping and Audit Reports……” http: //www. csir. co. za/ciwm/legislation. html Regulations Applicable to: • Waste Generators • Risk Waste Transporters • Risk Waste Transfer Stations • Waste Treatment Facilities • Additionally………. 3
Gauteng Waste Information Regulations • Draft Version – 6 May 2003: http: //www. csir. co. za/ciwm/legislation. html “There must be a provision for: • The establishment of a Waste Information System • Reporting formats and intervals • Registering of relevant persons • Access to waste reporting to the public • Penalties to be enforced” • How can technology be applied? 4
Technologies available today • GSM/GPRS (Cellular Communications) • GPS (Global Positioning System) • RFID (Radio Frequency ID) • Bluetooth (Short Range Radio) • Wi-Fi (RF Ethernet) Strength lies in the combination of these technologies…. 5
RFID -Tagging of Medical Waste Containers Replacement technology for barcoding Unlike barcodes, RFID tags can be read: • Through walls and ceilings (no line of sight is required). • In any orientation to the reader/antenna (although this could be important over long distances) • While moving (i. e. while being deposited through a return chute) • Several at a time (for instance, in the back of a medical waste vehicle) • From distances of several meters to the antenna 6
Pikitup and Netcare Tagging of Bins Example: 7
RFID Readers Placed strategically: • On Weigh Scale • Inside Vehicle • At Incinerator • At Wash Bay 8
Process of Identification • • Individual Weighing of Containers Loading of containers into vehicle Incineration of Waste Decontamination of Containers Unfortunately identification does not solve the problem: The Location is imperative. . . 9
Global Positioning System • 1 st May 2000 - US Do. D turned off “Selective Availability” of GPS satellites • Accuracies of close to 1 meter now possible with “differential GPS” • Typical example is “Digital Angel” 1
Digital Angel 1
GPS & Mapping • Example of Tracking of Medical Waste Vehicle • Example of a trip “Play-back” 1
Web-Based Reporting All interested parties have access to realtime information: • The Waste Generator • The Waste Removal Service Provider • The Authorities • The Public Example…… 1
Summary Monitoring from “the cradle to the grave” Made possible by e. Box Technology 1
- Management of health care waste
- Primary secondary tertiary medical care
- Today meeting or today's meeting
- Today class or today's class
- Meeting objective
- Galton details
- Today's lesson or today lesson
- Example of repitition
- Health and social care unit 2
- Chapter 20 today's issues in africa
- Chapter 20 today's issues in africa
- Automated health systems
- Health and social care component 3
- Automated certificate management environment
- Automated cash management systems