Ho Medical Waste Treatment Plant

The Deputy Minister of Health, Hon. Mahama Asei Seini has indicated that the HO medical waste treatment facility will solve public health concerns in the Volta region. Speaking in an address at the commissioning of the first medical waste treatment facility in the region, the Minister disclosed that "concerns regarding how medical waste materials are treated such as incineration, disposal at landfill sites, sorting by waste scavengers, re-using of medical waste among others pose health hazards to the public hence the new technology deployed to treat medical waste will safeguard public health". He said the facility is equipped with state-of-the-art…