Chương IV Thông tư liên tịch 58/2015/TTLT-BYT-BTNMT: Trách nhiệm của cơ quan, đơn vị liên quan

Chapter IV

RESPONSIBILITIES OF RELEVANT AGENCIES AND UNITS

Section 1: RESPONSIBILITIES OF STATE COMPETENT AUTHORITIES

Article 18. Responsibilities of the Ministry of Health

1. Provide guidance to departments of health and medical establishments within its authority on the implementation of provisions in this Circular.

2. Approve continuous training programs and documents in biomedical waste management for using nationwide.

3. Direct medical training facilities to add biomedical waste management contents to their full-time training programs.

4. Educate and disseminate laws on biomedical waste management to departments of health and medical establishments within its authority.

5. Inspect the implementation of provisions in this Circular.

Article 19. Responsibilities of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

1. Provide guidance to departments of natural resources and environment on the implementation of provisions in this Circular.

2. Coordinate with the Ministry of Health to organize the dissemination of laws on environmental protection in medical activities.

Article 20. Responsibilities of people’s committees at all levels

1. Responsibilities of the provincial people’s committee:

a) Consider and approve plans for collecting, transporting and treating hazardous biomedical waste in the territory of province in conformity with actual conditions of such province and in accordance with the law on environmental protection;

b) Grant funding for investment and operation of biomedical waste treatment works in the province as regulated by the law;

c) Take prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to inspect the implementation of provisions in this Circular by medical establishments in the province.

2. Responsibilities of the people’s committee of district, provincial-affiliated city or town:

a) Coordinate with department of health and department of natural resources and environment to perform plans for collecting, transporting and treating hazardous biomedical waste intra vires;

b) Propagandize and disseminate laws on biomedical waste management to medical establishments and relevant objects intra vires;

c) Coordinate with relevant agencies to inspect the implementation of provisions in this Circular by medical establishments intra vires.

3. Responsibilities of people’s committee of commune/ward/townlet:

People’s committee of commune/ward/townlet shall, within its authority, inspect the implementation of this Circular and laws on environmental protection by medical establishments as regulated by the law.

Article 21. Responsibilities of departments of health

1. Provide guidance to medical establishments in the province on the implementation of provisions in this Circular.

2. Take prime responsibility and coordinate with the department of natural resources and environment to inspect the implementation of provisions in this Circular by medical establishments in the province.

3. Coordinate with the department of natural resources and environment to establish and perform plans for collecting, transporting and treating hazardous biomedical waste in the province.

4. Be in charge of training, propagandizing and disseminating laws on biomedical waste management to medical establishments in the province.

5. Submit reports on biomedical waste management results in the province as regulated in Article 16 of this Circular.

Article 22. Responsibilities of departments of natural resources and environment

1. Take prime responsibility and coordinate with the department of health to establish plans for collecting, transporting and treating hazardous biomedical waste in the province, and submit such plans to the provincial people’s committee for approval. Contents of the plan for collecting, transporting and treating hazardous biomedical waste in the province shall comply with regulations in Clause 3 Article 23 of the Circular No. 36/2015/TT-BTNMT which is detailed in Annex No. 07 enclosed to this Circular.

2. Summarize and submit reports on hazardous waste management results as regulated in Clause 4 Article 11 of the Circular No. 36/2015/TT-BTNMT.

3. Take prime responsibility and coordinate with the department of health to inspect the implementation of provisions in this Circular by medical establishments and hazardous biomedical waste treatment facilities in the province.

4. Cooperate with department of health to train, propagandize and disseminate laws on biomedical waste management to medical establishments in the province.

Section 2: RESPONSIBILITIES OF MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENTS

Article 23. Responsibilities of the head of medical establishment

1. Perform the biomedical waste management as regulated in this Circular and other relevant legislative documents.

2. Assign 01 executive officer to undertake the biomedical waste management and 01 ward/department or officer to be in charge of the biomedical waste management of the medical establishment.

3. Prepare and sufficiently record information in hazardous biomedical waste handover book by using the form stated in Annex No. 08 enclosed to this Circular (except for cases where the medical establishment itself perform the biomedical waste treatment).

4. When performing the transfer of hazardous biomedical waste, the medical establishment must not use documents of hazardous biomedical waste at each transfer of hazardous biomedical waste as regulated in Clause 4 Article 7 of the Circular No. 36/2015/TT-BTNMT provided that the following responsibilities must be fulfilled:

a) If the medical establishment hires a unit that has obtained the license for hazardous waste treatment or the license for hazardous waste management to treat the waste generated by such medical establishment, it shall monthly make a set of documents of hazardous waste for the amount of hazardous biomedical waste transferred during the month as regulated in Annex 3 of the Circular No. 36/2015/TT-BTNMT;

b) If the medical establishment employs the model of biomedical waste treatment for a cluster of medical establishments, the logbook of delivery of hazardous biomedical waste shall replace for documents of hazardous biomedical waste.

5. Grant funding, arrange staff or entering into contract with an external unit to perform the biomedical waste collection, transportation and treatment.

6. Propagandize and disseminate laws on biomedical waste management to all officials, contract employees and relevant individuals in the medical establishment.

7. Organize annual training courses in biomedical waste management for officials, contract employees and relevant individuals in the medical establishment.

8. Submit reports on biomedical waste management results as regulated in Article 16 of this Circular.

Article 24. Responsibilities of the head of the medical establishment in charge of performing the hazardous biomedical waste treatment for the cluster of medical establishments

Apart from regulations in Article 23 of this Circular, the head of the medical establishment in charge of performing the hazardous biomedical waste treatment for the cluster of medical establishments must comply with the following provisions:

1. Perform the hazardous biomedical waste collection, transportation and treatment according to contents of the plan for hazardous biomedical waste collection, transportation and treatment approved by the provincial people’s committee.

2. Ensure technical requirements on means of transportation and waste storage equipment in such means of transportation as regulated in Article 11 of this Circular when collecting and transporting biomedical waste from medical establishments in the cluster.