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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 Intro to SNAP Ethernet I/O AB--3/2000
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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
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Gauteng Health Care Waste Management Regulations
Final Draft published on 10 June 2003: “Tracking Documents, Reporting, Record Keeping and Audit Reports……” Regulations Applicable to: Waste Generators Risk Waste Transporters Risk Waste Transfer Stations Waste Treatment Facilities Additionally……….
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Gauteng Waste Information Regulations
Draft Version – 6 May 2003: “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?
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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….
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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
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Pikitup and Netcare Tagging of Bins
Example:
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RFID Readers Readers Placed strategically: On Weigh Scale Inside Vehicle At Incinerator At Wash Bay
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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.....
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Global Positioning System
1st May US DoD turned off “Selective Availability” of GPS satellites Accuracies of close to 1 meter now possible with “differential GPS” Typical example is “Digital Angel”
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Digital Angel
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GPS & Mapping Example of Tracking of Medical Waste Vehicle Example of a trip “Play-back”
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Web-Based Reporting All interested parties have access to real-time information: The Waste Generator The Waste Removal Service Provider The Authorities The Public Example……
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Monitoring from “the cradle to the grave”
Summary Monitoring from “the cradle to the grave” Made possible by eBox Technology
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