On June 12, the medical website called the "black market" in the "black market" of the illegal treatment of medical waste 

 

From many different hospitals of dirty infusion bag, urine bag, mixed with surgical gloves, cotton swabs, and even syringes and needles, be processed into recycled plastic raw materials, from hunan to hebei and other places... Together on June 5, the hunan provincial high court reporting typical cases, the court of first instance that has more than 140 tons of medical waste and medical waste in miluo city of hunan province GuPei town a peasant small courtyard, hidden by the criminal revenge after some people such as crushed, sold to its "offline" in hebei langfang, etc. A total of 12 people in hunan, hubei, hebei and jiangsu provinces have been convicted of "environmental crimes". 

 

 

Photo site photo (photo courtesy of law enforcement) 

 

Disturbing to the police, when these criminal suspects arrested in connection with, there are many environmental protection agencies recognized belongs to "hazardous waste" and "toxic substances" medical waste or waste is it offline purchase, processing plastic particles become illegible - blue acrylic material, some may have even become plastic products to market. Outlook weekly news magazine reporter tracking for half a year, found that the crime chain exposed our country the classification of medical waste, recycling and disposal there is still a loophole, safe hidden trouble. 

 

The collection was a shocking sight 

 

In hunan miluo city GuPei town after the willow village, the villagers of a hospital, a few wearing gloves "staff" is for sorting, crushing piles of medical waste. When the black mills found by the police and the environmental protection law enforcement officers, yard piled sends out a pungent smell of medical waste, flowed from some hospital infusion bag out of the liquid in the flowing directly on the ground, some on the infusion bag before and remove the needle, needle, needle also remain on dried blood... 

 

"These people don't even wear masks." Xu, the director of the miluo municipal environmental protection bureau's emergency center, described the scene as "shocking." "The waste water from the black workshop was polluted by the rain gutters and polluted the environment. The smell of the pungent smell was so strong that the public was dissatisfied." 

 

In early April 2016, the miluo municipal environmental protection bureau received a report saying that the villagers had a feud with several people illegally processing medical waste. They immediately dispatched law enforcement officers to the scene and seized more than 50 tons of medical waste and medical waste. 

 

"Black workshop" someone of confession to law enforcement officials, they scattered acquisition of medical waste from the scrap market, after preliminary manual sorting, cleaning and grinding processing and sell them to logoff profit, these things are mainly used in the manufacture of plastic raw materials. 

 

Miluo city public security bureau police brigade police let the husband told the outlook weekly news magazine reporter, clear division of labor cooperation, criminal gangs involved crime chain across hunan, hubei, hebei, etc. 

 

Police investigation found that criminals revenge a "partner" HuoMou in has not obtained any related qualifications, a town located in GuPei willow village in revenge backyard open mill houses, and hire some people such as processing. The workshop processes medical waste and waste, which is not sterilized. In order to make more money, the operators say, the infectious medical waste, such as a disposable syringe, is sold as scrap plastic. The workers in the workshop confessed that they had even used urine bags for dialysis, and some had yellow urine of patients. The "product" of their processing price is about 2,000 yuan per ton, which can be sold to nearly 5,000 yuan per ton in the plastic market in langfang, hebei, after sorting, cleaning and breaking. Because the benefits are so large, the participants risk taking risks. 

 

According to the law enforcement officials, the people of langfang, hebei province, are "big customers" in the lower reaches of the milo workshop. The trade between these people is a few tons, ten tons, and dozens of tons. Hazardous plastic medical waste and waste are processed into granule "blue propylene", the blue PP reraw material, from hubei and hunan provinces. At this point, it is difficult for law enforcement to find out where these substances are going. They may become a plastic pipe material, can also be in culture, entertainment, food, medical, material, bedroom adornment is widely used in the field of the high transparent materials, the law enforcers deeply concern. 

 

Outlook weekly news magazine reporter learned that, in such cases, the law enforcement authorities seized the medical waste is most often infusion bag, infusion bottle, such as medical waste, a few is a must to burn the medical wastes. 

 

Illegal outflow of "inside ghost" help 

 

Wang yun, director of the office of the public security bureau of the miluo city, said that the illegal treatment of medical waste and garbage cases was widespread. Miluo city public security bureau set up led by police brigade of some investigation and a trial in revenge by early visits, some policemen have mastered the criminal suspect caches. 

 

After half a year, civilian police to chenzhou, hunan province, hubei yichang, foshan, guangdong, hebei langfang, jiangsu suqian, etc, will be more than a dozen criminal suspects arrested, but there are many people on the run. 

 

Multiple scene captured booty, according to a lot of blood transfusion bag, bag, bottle, etc from hunan hengyang, xiangtan, zhuzhou, chenzhou and yuanan, xiangyang city, hubei province hospital, for the most part and for the public medical institutions, many or level of first-class hospital. 

 

The reporter of "outlook" newsweek has learned that many public hospital property companies and procter & gamble have been involved in the investigation. 

 

Ren's introduction, since October 2015, the criminal suspect Dai Mou from huaihua city many times mixed with a large hospital property personnel for a fraction of the price of disposable infusion sets, syringes, needles, etc infusion bag, and people in the hospital, please carry their own collection spot in situ after sorting and then sell them to buyers, the cumulative weighed dozens of tons. Similarly, the volume of transactions in a large hospital in yichang city, hubei province, is several tons. 

 

Outlook weekly news magazine reporter found in several public hospital sea-front research, according to the requirements, the hospital each department will be in accordance with the relevant regulation of medical waste classification first, then sent to a special storage storage, medical waste and recyclable garbage can classify into good, and then to a qualified professional company pickup. But the investigation found that some hospitals "acquiesced" in hospital nurses and property staff to sell medical waste and have become "hidden rules". 

 

A level 2 grade a hospital of hunan province, according to people familiar with the public hospital medical waste by classification, storage, property company contact professional company disposal, however, property company will all medical waste disposal to the professional company, is "the boss's conscience". Some property management, cleaning staff, often become the "key people" in the medical waste recyclers. 

 

"In some hospitals at the county level, each month's salary is not enough to hospital worker, cleaner, they acquiescence to infusion bag, bottle and other medical waste scrap sales. At the same time, the hospital should pay for themselves, rather than paid a professional pickup destruction of medical waste processing company, let care treatment, sell when subsidies." "Said a county hospital official. 

 

"We also found a fluid bag coming out of the blood center." Revenge was introduced, some in the processing of medical waste and waste many infusion bag, there is a blood stations of hunan logo, for suspects on the run, the acquisition of chain operation mode is unclear. 

 

The police told the outlook weekly news magazine reporter, in addition to the medical institutions from medical waste, and part of the medical wastes from the outflow of a environmental protection company. 

 

One of the policemen, in February 2016, the criminal suspect LeiMou flat from ryu (at large) acquisition of hybrid has used a disposable infusion sets, disposable syringes, cotton swabs, medical gloves, used infusion bag of 4.88 tons, after changed hands by an Wu Mou sold to revenge. 

 

This name, the policemen said ryu and other criminal suspect of the medical waste and medical waste from a environmental protection enterprise, and ryu is the head of the company. 

 

A police, according to people familiar with the case interlock is wide, the case is complex, especially involving many provincial medical institutions, enterprises and social idle personnel, investigation is very difficult. It is believed that as the investigation goes on, there will be more problems. 

 

The treatment of medical treatment should be "leaky". 

 

According to the medical waste management regulations and relevant provisions, medical treatment, prevention or health care, and other related activities of medical waste must first be classified in the hospital, five categories of medical waste must be sent to burn has the qualifications of the medical waste disposal center, while medical waste, such infusion bag, infusion bottle, can enter the resource recycling market. 

 

Outlook weekly news magazine reporter in the unified national plan of environmental protection at the provincial level of hazardous waste treatment project, hengyang hazardous waste disposal center, after medical waste is special vehicles into the factory, after about 134 degrees Celsius and 40 minutes of high temperature cooking, inactivated laboratory test analysis standard to the landfill. In order to avoid "secondary loss" of the landfill, the future could be incinerated by the incinerator of living waste incineration. 

 

Because of the characteristics of acute infection and latent pollution, the treatment of medical waste must be highly cautious, xu said. If handled improperly, it can easily become a source of hospital infections and social environmental hazards, and may even be the source of the epidemic. 

 

A survey by the newsweek magazine has found that the current problems of recycling, transport and disposal of medical waste are fraught with problems. 

 

First, the classification of medical waste in some hospitals is out of place. The environmental protection department routine inspection, found that some of the medical staff will not sharp medical waste (such as needles, etc.), medical treatment of toxic waste is separated from some medical waste recycling, classification work is still not in place. 

 

In addition, at present a lot of big hospital entrusted p&g or property company for medical waste treatment, because of the profit-driven, quality is uneven, do not understand the laws and regulations such as the reason, some staff are reluctant to effort to classify processing, may even deliberately dangerous medical waste doped into the medical waste, in order to increase sell out the weight of the medical waste. Second, the oversight of the regulatory loopholes in the qingyun and the disposal sector has been highlighted. Commissioner of HuanZiWei supervision of National People's Congress of hunan province, liu told the outlook weekly news magazine reporter, in some remote areas of the county hospital, towns and townships, because medical waste often need to collect to the city level of the medical waste treatment centre, disposal of trouble, it is easier for the hospital the medical waste mixed with life rubbish dump, or steal sold to collect medical waste "black workshop". 

 

Hunan health development planning commission according to a person familiar with the matter, now a populous province which is home to tens of thousands of medical institutions, health supervision by the administrative department of the hospital there is some more long, wide surface, line, regulation is not possible without blind Angle. 

 

In response to the current "black market" phenomenon of medical waste, the experts interviewed by the survey suggested more punishment, better facilities and stronger supervision. 

 

First, it is recommended to further improve the laws and regulations, to change the status quo of low cost and high compliance costs. Liu shuai said that in the regulations on medical waste management, the penalty for treating illegal behavior in general medical treatment is relatively minor, and the legal punishment is relatively small. 

 

China central astri solid waste pollution control technology research institute britain-based authority suggested that increasing punishment measures, improve the illegal cost, strengthen the responsibility system of leadership and management of medical institutions, reversed transmission medical institutions as actively, prevent leak. 

 

Second, we will improve the infrastructure for medical waste disposal. Liu introduces, at present more and township level have no medical waste treatment centre, transport collection of medical waste disposal of low cost, high efficiency, medical institutions, transshipment normal processing enterprises lack of motivation. 

 

Third, we will improve the mechanism for working in the supervision department. Outlook weekly news magazine reporter survey found that in classification, transporting and disposal of medical wastes link holes, and environmental protection, health and other departments for the disposal of medical wastes recycling regulation there is a problem of each tube "head". 

 

"Still in the hospital, the medical wastes by the health department is responsible for supervision, out of the hospital door, just by the supervision department of the environment. The requirements of environmental protection and health care departments must strengthen the regulation of joint, build system of joint, blocked link." Liu said. 

 

Experts such as wang qi believe that law enforcement agencies must investigate the chain of interest in the sale of medical waste, seek accountability, find loopholes and find hidden dangers. Especially from the source, ensure that medical waste and medical waste do not leak out into the market. 

 

In addition, the public security authorities in the investigation found that the medical waste with wider range of "industrial chain upstream and downstream, often involving different areas even more provinces, some places do not take the problems of medical waste, shield connivance of local business cases difficult to smoothly, the whole society should be strengthened, especially the government's emphasis on medical waste problems, let it nowhere. 

 

Finally, the classification and disposal methods of recyclable medical waste should be further regulated. Many experts believe that questioned due to illegal outflow of medical waste on the environment, the threat to the health of consumers are huge, advice strictly control its recycling, promote recyclable standards for the division of medical waste. At the same time, it is suggested that further strict management of medical waste recycling process, the subjects of the recycling, reproduction, screening the franchise, and regulate the sorting, cleaning, and using process.