Emergency Solutions to the Pandemic Challenge for Urban Medical Wastes Disposal

 处理疫情城市医疗废弃物的应急解决方案

The Chongqing Municipal Ecological Environmental Bureau used an innovative ‘3-Level Emergency Mechanism’ to dispose of urban medical waste in response to growing urban medical wastes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These solutions, combining novel technology to deal with urban medical waste disposal and strict supervision for hospitals, were implemented to ensure effective regulation of medical wastes, thus preventing secondary infection and virus spread. Chongqing also helped Wuhan construct and operate an emergency disposal center for medical wastes of COVID-19 to process medical wastes from Lei-Shen-Shan and Huo-Shen-Shan’s makeshift hospitals and other hospitals in 16 districts. This initiative directly benefits the citizens of Chongqing and Wuhan during the most challenging period of the COVID19 pandemic.

重庆市生态环境局采用了创新的“三级应急机制”来处理城市医疗废物，以应对新冠疫情带来的不断增多的城市医疗废物。重庆所实施的应急方案把城市医疗废物处理的新技术和对医院的严格监管相结合，确保有效监管医疗废物，从而防止继发感染和病毒传播。重庆还帮助武汉建立并运营了一个新冠疫情医疗废物应急处理中心，处理雷神山和火神山临时医院及其他16个区的医疗废物。在新冠疫情最艰难的时期，该措施直接使重庆和武汉市民受益。

 The initiative provides an innovative collaboration model based on a clear division of responsibilities, thus enabling quick emergency responses. It provides innovative emergency solutions to the disposal of urban medical waste, improves urban safety resilience under the pandemic,  and alerts other cities in the world about the importance of medical waste disposal in controlling the spread of disease.

该项目的协作模式能提高各种人群的参与度，明确职责分工，从而能够快速响应紧急事件。这为紧急处置医疗废弃物提供了一个很好的模式，提高疫情下的城市安全恢复能力，同时也提醒了世界其他城市有关医疗废物处置在遏制疾病传播中的重要性。