A phone call was behind the detection of a health and environmental catastrophe in Fayoum, whose hero is a medical center for women and childbirth that delivers medical waste on the public road without following environmental and health standards for safe disposal.
The Fayoum Governorate announced the closure of a medical center for women and childbirth this morning, on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street in Fayoum City, in red wax, to dump medical waste on the main road, and not to follow infection control policies inside the center, in order to preserve the health and safety of patients and citizens.
Dr. Mohamed Al-Toni, the official spokesman for the Fayoum Governorate, said that Dr. Ahmed Al-Ansari, the governor of Fayoum, received a phone call from Representative Ashraf Aziz, a member of the People’s Assembly from the Fayoum Center Department, to monitor medical waste dumped on the Prophet’s Street, the engineer, pointing out that the governor had contacted with Major General Adel Al-Tahlawy, Assistant Minister of Interior, Director Fayoum security, and directed the undersecretary of the Ministry of Health and Environmental Management in the governorate, to go immediately to the location of the incident and take the necessary legal measures.
The Spokesman revealed the direction of Dr. Amal Hashem, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Fayoum, Dr. Ahmed Saad, Director of the Free Therapy Department, the Free Therapy Department and Medical Waste Team, Brigadier Yasser Safwat, Director of the Surface and Environment Police Department, and Samira Marzouq, Director of the Environmental Affairs Department at the Governorate’s General Court, and Alaa Ramadan Vice-President of Fayoum City Council, and the head of the Sharq neighborhood, to the location of the incident, pointing out that the committee passed through the hospitals and medical centers in the surrounding area, and by matching those medical wastes that were represented in the “placenta, blood bags, blood clothes, contaminated injection, and contaminated cotton.” B The blood and urinary catheter “, with the activity of that center on this day, showing the dumping of medical waste and waste inside containers dumped under the property, then dumped on the Prophet’s Street.
The Spokesman added that the committee monitored a number of violations within the medical center, including the lack of conformity of the operations wing with the technical requirements, which is the absence of a recovery room, and the non-compliance of infection control policies within the operating room, with the absence of a sterilization room for surgical machines, and monitoring of uncovered electrical wires , And cleaning and cooking tools inside the operating room, as well as the absence of a room for the collection of hazardous medical waste, adding that the center was closed by decision No. 34 of 2020, with red wax, in the early hours of the morning.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Ansari instructed the Governor of Fayoum, the Directorate of Health Affairs to intensify inspection campaigns for medical non-governmental facilities, to ensure the provision of high-quality medical services, without compromising in full compliance with infection control standards and occupational safety and health.
Al-Ansari stressed that the governorate agencies will not tolerate dealing firmly and forcefully with any medical or non-medical facility that lacks environmental and occupational safety and quality standards, in order to ensure the safety and health of citizens.
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