Chương 4 Thông tư 20/2021/TT-BYT: Điều khoản thi hành

Chapter 4

IMPLEMENTATION

Article 15. Implementation responsibilities

1. Responsibilities of the Health Environment Management Agency

a) Direct, guide, and inspect the implementation of regulations of this Circular;

b) Promulgate technical guidelines for health-care waste management in the premises of a healthcare facility;

c) Provide training and propagate regulations on health-care waste management for the Department of Health and healthcare facilities under its management.

2. Responsibilities of the Department of Health

a) Direct, guide, and inspect the implementation of regulations of this Circular in the area under its management;

b) Provide training and propagate regulations on health-care waste management of this Circular for healthcare facilities under its management;

c) Direct healthcare facilities under its management to develop health-care waste management plan;

d) Cooperate with the Department of Finance in the allocation of budget to invest and upgrade the health-care waste treatment equipment, system, and works for healthcare facilities under its management;

dd) Report the result of health-care waste management in accordance with regulations prescribed in Article 13 of this Circular.

3. Responsibilities of healthcare facilities

a) Conduct health-care waste management in accordance with this Circular and other related legal documents;

b) Assign the head of the healthcare facility to undertake the health-care waste management; arrange health-care waste management officers; assign tasks to the Department of Infection Control or faculties, departments, divisions in charge of health-care waste management; arrange personnel or cooperate with external units in the operation of health-care waste treatment equipment, system, works according to requirements of the task (for healthcare facilities that treat waste themselves);

c) Develop health-care waste management plan separately or combine it with the annual operation plan of the healthcare facility; allocate budget to conduct health-care waste management;

d) Classify types of waste generated from activities of the healthcare facility to apply appropriate management methods in accordance with regulations of this Circular;

dd) Comply with demands of plans, methods, and equipment to prevent and respond to environmental incidents caused by the waste in accordance with the law (including treatment plans in case the hazardous health-care waste increases abnormally due to epidemic diseases or force majeure events);

e) Provide training and propagate regulations on health-care waste management for public employees, workers, and related entities;

g) Report the result of health-care waste management in accordance with regulations prescribed in Article 13 of this Circular.

Article 16. Implementation

1. Entry into force

a) This Circular comes into force as of January 10, 2022;

b) Joint Circular No. 58/2015/TTLT-BYT-BTNMT dated December 31, 2015 of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment regulated on health-care waste management expires when this Circular comes into force.

2. Implementation

a) The Director of the Health Environment Management Agency, Chief of the Ministry Office of the Ministry of Health, Chief Inspector of Ministry of the Ministry of Health, Directors of departments of the Ministry of Health, and other related agencies, organizations, individuals shall implement this Circular;

b) Difficulties that arise during the implementation of this Circular should be reported to the Ministry of Health (Health Environment Management Agency) for consideration./.