Given the potential infectious nature of clinical waste in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, stringent regulations have been put in place in the Waste Treatment and Management Facility of the Da Nang Urban Environment Company. Over recent months, the facility has been subject to strict procedures for the management of healthcare waste arising from hospitals and quarantine sites across the city. Waste from these sites is subject to stringent controls.

The facility's staff are required to follow strictly the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s guidelines about safe handling and disposal of waste in healthcare in order to prevent the transmission of the infectious disease.

Waste arising from quarantine sites are transported to the Waste Treatment and Management Facility in Hoa Khanh Nam Ward, Lien Chieu District for treatment

Staff of the municipal Urban Environment Company are working hard to collect waste every day and avoid leaving them overnight in order to prevent the spread of the virus

When collecting and handling healthcare waste, the facility's workers are required to wear personal protective items including clothes, hats, boots, gloves and face masks to protect themselves from infection.

Trash bins are brought together at a collection point prior to entering the incinerator

Marking and labelling of infectious waste with high risk of Covid-19 virus infection

A worker at the waste incineration plant

Trash is being put into an incinerator

Staff of the Da Nang Urban Environment Company collects a daily average of 400 kiloes of healthcare waste

A worker cleaning and disinfecting waste bins with Chloramine B

Trash bins will be reused after being disinfected

 By XUAN SON - Translated by MAI DUNG