U.S. hospitals are not prepared to handle the biohazardous material Ebola patients would produce, biosafety experts told Reuters, because waste management contractors are refusing to handle material tainted with the virus.
Ebola waste is required by the U.S. Department of Transportation regulations to be put into special packaging by personnel trained to handle hazardous material. Waste management contractors are citing these guidelines when refusing the handle Ebola waste.
Biohazardous material produced by two U.S. missionaries being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta was rejected by Stericycle, the hospital’s waste hauler.
Emory had to kill off pathogens in the waste material by sending it into a steriliser known as an autoclave and seal it off in 32-gallon waste containers before Stericycle was willing to receive the material for incineration in an agreement mediated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Few hospitals have the capacity to autoclave medical waste from Ebola patients. The Centers for Disease Control is working with the Department of Transportation resolve the issue.
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