[depth] syringe needle medical gloves reprocessing?

The reporter of "Looking News Weekly" tracked for six months found that "medical waste" has potential safety problems -

Dirty infusion bags and urine bags that flowed out of different hospitals, mixed with medical gloves, cotton swabs, even syringes and needles, were processed into recycled plastic materials and flowed from Hunan to Hebei and other places.... Recently, Hunan Provincial High Court notified A typical case: The court found that more than 140 tons of medical waste and medical waste were found in a hidden farmhouse in Gubei Town, Miluo City, Hunan Province. They were crushed by criminals and others, and sold to their locations in Langfang, Hebei. "Offline". In this case, a total of 12 people from Hunan, Hubei, Hebei, Jiangsu and other places were sentenced for “pollution of the environment”.

What disturbed police investigators was that when these criminal suspects were arrested, there were many medical wastes or wastes that had been identified by the environmental protection agencies as being “hazardous waste” and “toxic substances”. They were acquired by their off-line and processed into unidentifiable plastic granules. - Blue propancies, or even some may have become plastic products flow to the market. "Looking Hope" Weekly Newsweek reporter found that this criminal chain exposed China's medical waste classification, recycling, disposal link still exists loopholes, hidden dangers.

Cleaning medical waste site is shocking

In the backyard of Chou Moujia, a villager in Yangliu Village, Gubei Township, Miluo City, Hunan Province, several “workers” wearing gloves are sorting and crushing piles of medical waste. When the “black workshop” was discovered by the police and environmental protection law enforcement personnel, the hospital had piled up medical waste with a pungent odor. The fluid leaked from some hospital infusion bags flowed freely on the ground, and some infusion bags. There are also needles and needles that have been removed in the future, and there are still traces of blood in the needles...

“These people did not even wear masks.” Xu Shuli, director of the Emergency Department of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Miluo City, described the scene as “shocking”. "This black workshop cleans medical waste and drains it directly through the gutter. It pollutes the environment. The pungent odor persists and causes dissatisfaction."

In early April 2016, the Miluo City Environmental Protection Bureau received a report that the village’s Chou and several people illegally processed medical waste. They immediately dispatched law enforcement personnel to the scene and seized more than 50 tons of medical waste and medical waste in one fell swoop.

Some people in the “black workshop” confessed to law enforcement officials. They purchased medical waste from the scrap market sporadically, processed and then sold to the offline line after preliminary manual sorting, cleaning, smashing, and other processes. These things are mainly used to make raw materials for plastic products.

After processing can earn 3,000 yuan per ton

The civilian police of the Public Security Bureau of the Miluo City Public Security Bureau told the reporter of the "Looking Hope" Newsweek that the criminal gangs involved in the division of labor and cooperation were clear and the criminal chain straddles Hunan, Hubei and Hebei.

The police investigation revealed that the criminal, Chou Mou, and Huo, a partner, had not obtained any relevant qualifications. They opened a workshop in the backyard of the house in Yangliu Village, Gupei Town, and hired Fu and others for processing. The workshop processes medical garbage and wastes and basically does not undergo disinfection.

Some investigators said that such workshops need to make more money, even infectious medical waste such as disposable syringes are broken and sold as waste plastics. Some workshop workers gave an account. The raw materials they processed even had urine bags for dialysis, and some had yellow urine for the patients. The processing price of the “products” processed by them is approximately 2,000 yuan per ton. After sorting, cleaning, and crushing, the plastics market in Langfang, Hebei can be sold for nearly 5,000 yuan per ton. Because the space of interest is considerable, participants take risks.

Respondents of law enforcement officials said that downstream of the “black workshop” in Miluo, Hebei, Hebei Langfang and others were “facilitators”. The transactions between these individuals range from a few tons to ten tons and as much as tens of tons. After the hazardous plastic medical waste and garbage flow into Hebei from Hubei and Hunan, they are processed into granular “blue propylene materials”—blue PP recycled materials. At this point, it is very difficult for law enforcement officials to find out where these substances are going. They may become plastic pipe raw materials, or they may become widely used "highly transparent materials" in the fields of culture, entertainment, food, medicine, materials, and house decoration. This makes law-enforcers feel deeply worried.

According to a reporter from the "Zhouwang" Newsweek magazine, in such cases, most of the medical waste seized by law enforcement agencies are medical wastes such as infusion bags and infusion bottles, and a small part is medical waste that must be burned and destroyed.

Rescue medical waste has become a "hidden rule"

Wang Yun, Director of the Political Affairs Office of Miluo City Public Security Bureau, introduced that the illegal disposal of medical waste and rubbish cases involved a lot. The Miluo City Public Security Bureau set up a task force led by a security brigade to pass preliminary investigations and trials against Qiu, and the task force’s civilian police mastered the harborage of the criminal suspects.

After six months, the police went to Zhangzhou, Hunan, Yichang, Hubei, Foshan, Guangdong, Langfang, Hebei, and Suqian, Jiangsu. More than a dozen criminal suspects were captured, but many others were at large.

Many on-site seized items showed that many infusion bags, blood bags, medicine bottles, etc. came from Hunan Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Hengyang, Quzhou and Hubei Yuanan County, Xiangyang City and other hospitals, and most of them were public medical institutions. Many were still three. Class A hospital.

The reporter of the "Outlook" News Weekly was informed that many public hospital property companies and cleaning companies were involved in the case.

Ren Shifu introduced that since October 2015, the criminal suspect Dai Mian repeatedly purchased infusion bags containing disposable infusion sets, syringes, and needles from a large-scale hospital property manager in Huaihua City at low prices, and invited people to the hospital. After picking it up in the field and returning it to its own acquisition point, it sells it to the next home and accumulatively weighs several tens of tons. A similar situation also involves a large hospital in Yichang City, Hubei Province. The transaction volume is also several tons.

According to relevant surveys, the “Zhouwang” Newsweek reporter found out that in various public hospitals, according to relevant regulations, hospital departments will first classify medical wastes and send them to specialized storage rooms. Medical waste and recyclable garbage will be categorized into different categories. Store it, then hand it over to a qualified professional company. However, the reporter found that some hospitals have "accepted" hospital care workers and property personnel to resell medical waste, which has become a "hidden rule."

Illegal outflow of "Ghosts" helps

An informed source from a Grade-A hospital in Hunan Province disclosed that the medical waste of public hospitals was classified and stored by the property company and contacted by a professional company. However, whether the property company would hand over all the medical waste to a professional company would be a matter of “boss. Conscience." Some property management companies are responsible for the care workers and cleaners. They often become the “key people” that medical waste recyclers draw.

“In some county-level hospitals, hospitals provide care workers and cleaners with insufficient monthly wages, and they acquiesced that they sell medical waste such as infusion bags and medicine bottles as waste products. At the same time, hospitals should be responsible for their own profits and losses. If the transport company destroys medical waste, it will be better for the nursing staff to handle it and sell it as subsidies,” said a person in charge of a county-level hospital.

"We also found that the infusion bag at the blood center was flowing out." Ren Youfu said that there were still many infusion bags in the medical waste and waste that were processed by Chou, and there was a blood station logo in Hunan, which was due to the involvement of the suspects. The mode of operation of the acquisition chain is not yet clear.

Police investigating the case told Newsweek that there are medical wastes that flow out of an environmental company, in addition to medical institutions.

A case police officer introduced that in February 2016, the suspect Lei Mouping purchased a mixed disposable infusion set, a disposable syringe, a cotton swab, a medical glove, and an used infusion bag 4.88 from Liu (at fugitive). T, after the transfer to Wumou sold to the enemy.

The police investigating the case revealed that the medical waste and medical waste obtained by Liu and other criminal suspects came from an environmental protection company, and Liu was the person in charge of the company.

A person familiar with the police revealed that the case involved a wide range of cases and the circumstances of the case were complex. In particular, medical institutions, companies, and social idlers involved in many provinces were very difficult to investigate. I believe that as the investigation continues to deepen, there will be many problems gradually surfaced.

According to Xinhua News Agency

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Wang Qi, director of the Institute of Solid Waste Pollution Control Technology of the Chinese Academy of Earth Sciences, proposed to increase penalties, increase the cost of illegal activities, and strengthen the management responsibility system for medical institutions. He urged medical institutions to take the initiative and prevent loopholes.

Liu Shuai, Director of Hunan Provincial People's Congress and Environment Supervision Committee, said: “While medical waste is still in the hospital, it is supervised by the Department of Health and Welfare. The door of the hospital has been supervised by the environmental protection department. This requires that the environmental protection and medical departments must strengthen the joint Supervision, establishing a joint system, and blocking loopholes."