Chapter IX
TREATMENT OF WASTE WATER AND GASEOUS WASTE
Article 27. General provisions on treatment of waste water
1. Each hospital must have a synchronous waste water collection and treatment system.
2. Those hospitals, which do not have waste water treatment systems, must build complete waste water treatment systems.
3. Those hospitals already having waste water treatment systems which are, however, out of order or have operated inefficiently, must repair and upgrade them for operation up to environmental standards.
4. Newly built hospitals must include waste water treatment systems into construction items approved by competent agencies.
5. Hospital waste water treatment technologies must satisfy environmental standards and conform to topographical conditions, investment, transportation and maintenance costs.
6. Waste water treatment must be qualitatively examined periodically and waste water treatment dossiers must be kept.
Article 28. Waste water collection
1. Hospitals must have separate systems for collecting surface water and waste water from various departments, rooms. Waste water culvert systems must run underground or be covered with lids.
2. Waste water treatment systems must have mud-gathering tanks.
Article 29. Requirements on hospital waste water treatment systems
1. They are structured with an appropriate technological process for treatment of waste water up to environmental standards;
2. Their capacities suit the volume of hospitals’ waste water;
3. Waste water discharge gates must be convenient for inspection and supervision;
4. Mud discharged from waste water treatment systems must be managed like solid medical wastes.
5. Waste water treatment must be qualitatively inspected periodically. There must be books on management of operation and results of relevant quality inspection.
Article 30. Treatment of gaseous wastes
1. Laboratories, chemicals or pharmaceuticals storehouses must be constructed with air ventilation systems and toxic gas-gathering cabinets up to the prescribed standards.
2. Equipment using toxic chemical gas must have systems for treating gas up to prescribed standards before it is discharged into environment.
3. Gas discharged from solid medical waste incinerators must be treated up to Vietnam’s environmental standards.