JICA SWM Project

The Park view hospital of Chattogram City Corporation was certified as a model Hospital of proper medical waste management by JICA. The notable improvements were:

1) Proper color code
2) Proper bin placement
3) Renovation of the storage
4) Recording the weight and
5) Internal awareness raising.

[Medical Waste Management: A Success Story]

To put an end to the everlasting medical waste management problem which was more vividly visible during the Covid -19 out surge in 2020, JICA after discussing with Chattogram City Corporation, decided to donate an environment friendly, smokeless medical waste incinerator. To incinerate the medical wastes first and foremost, medical wastes were needed to be segregated from the source i.e., the Health Care Establishments. To do that JICA Project Team chose Park View Hospital as a piloting hospital and the goal was to set the hospital up as a model hospital. The authority understood the vision of the team and welcomed wholeheartedly. Thus, the journey towards the betterment of the waste management of the hospital begun.

After surveying the prevailing situation of the hospital on 17th and 18th November 2021, training on Proper Medical Waste Management was conducted in the Park View Hospital. The training program covered about 136 staffs who are directly involved in waste generation and handling. From then, the project team kept monitoring them and after being aware of the effects of untreated medical waste, the staffs slowly started to develop a habit of segregating the waste. However, noticing some knowledge gaps, , the project team came up with an action plan which included all the facilities of the Hospital and the proper placement of bins in those facilities, proper segregation standards, safety measures and so on. Following the plan and under continuous monitoring of the Project team, things began to change a bit faster. After lots of hardship, finally they achieved a certain level of success that can be shown off. That’s when the honorable Ambassador of Japan His Excellency Mr. Naoki Ito, together with the Chief Representative of JICA Bangladesh Mr. Hayakawa Yuho visited the Hospital. After their visit, the Project Team continued to monitor the hospital. This time the goal was to determine whether the improvement was a sustainable one or a temporary one. After following up for about a month and a half the developments were determined to be sustainable, and improvements were found to be rewarding by JICA. Thus, the Hospital was certified as a model Hospital by JICA on the 9th of March 2022.