Chương I Quyết định 43/2007/QĐ-BYT về quy chế quản lý chất thải y tế: Những quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Governing scope

1. This Regulation provides for the management of medical wastes, the rights and responsibilities of organizations and individuals in the management of medical wastes.

2. Medical establishments and organizations as well as individuals participating in the treatment and destruction of medical wastes shall, apart from implementing this Regulation, implement current state regulations on management of wastes.

Article 2. Subjects of application

This Regulation applies to medical examination and treatment establishments, maternity homes, health stations, establishments engaged in medical and pharmaceutical research, preventive medicine, training of heath workers, production of and trading in pharmaceutical products, vaccines, medical biologicals (collectively referred to as medical establishments) and organizations as well as individuals involved in the transportation, treatment or destruction of medical wastes.

Article 3. Interpretation of terms

In this Regulation, the terms below are construed as follows:

1. Medical wastes means materials in solid, liquid or gaseous form, discharged from medical establishments, including hazardous medical wastes and ordinary medical wastes.

2. Hazardous medical wastes means medical wastes containing elements hazardous to human health and environment such as contagiousness, intoxication, radiation, flammability, explosiveness, corrosiveness or other hazardous characters if these wastes are not safely destroyed.

3. Management of medical wastes means activities of managing the classification, preliminary treatment, collection, transportation, storage, minimization, re-­use, recycle, treatment and destruction of medical wastes, and inspecting as well as overseeing the implementation.

4. Minimization of medical wastes means activities of restricting to the utmost the discharge of medical wastes, including reduction of medical waste volumes at their sources, use of recyclable or re-usable products, good management and strict control of the process of accurate classification of wastes.

5. Re-use means the use of a product for many times until the end of its lifetime or the use of products for a new function or a new purpose.

6. Recycle means the re-production of discarded materials into new products.

7. Collection of wastes at their sources means the process of classifying, gathering, packing and temporarily storing wastes at places where wastes are generated in medical establishments.

8. Transportation of wastes means the process of transporting wastes from their sources to places of preliminary treatment, storage or destruction.

9. Preliminary treatment means the process of disinfecting or sterilizing highly contagious wastes at their sources before the transportation thereof to places of storage or destruction.

10. Waste treatment and destruction means the process of using technologies to deprive the wastes of their hazard to human health and environment.

Article 4. Prohibited acts

1. Discharging hazardous medical wastes, which are not yet treated or destroyed up to prescribed standards, into the environment.

2. Treating and destroying hazardous medical wastes not according to the prescribed technical process and not at the prescribed place.

3. Delivering medical wastes to organizations or individuals having no legal person status for operation in the domain of waste management.

4. Trading in hazardous wastes.

5. Recycling hazardous medical wastes.