
Disposal of biomedical waste in Senegal
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Initial Situation
Most infectious hospital waste in Senegal is incinerated openly. These open fires are harmful to people and nature because toxic residues are released into the groundwater. In addition, open combustion does not reach sufficiently high temperatures so that the combustion does not have a disinfecting effect and pathogens can spread further.
The charitable association Hilfe für Senegal e.V., which has set up two health stations in the Thiès area, is aware of this problem and asked us from Technology without Borders for professional and technical support.
Project Content
The project objective was to enable the safe disposal of infectious hospital waste. For this purpose, an incinerator was built near the regional hospital in Khombole. In this incinerator the waste of the regional hospital in Khombole as well as the waste of the nearby hospital wards can be incinerated in a controlled manner.
This incinerator is a double-walled brick incinerator with two combustion chambers. In the second chamber, the gases are afterburned, which makes it possible to achieve combustion with low flue gas emissions. Next to the incinerator, a lockable storage facility for the infectious waste to be incinerated was built, a roof was erected as a protection against rain and sun, and a landfill for the remaining ashes was constructed. The overall system is based on the low-budget principle: simple but solid and repair-insensitive technology with the lowest possible operating costs.
Project Implementation as Remote Project
Due to the good cooperation with a local technician in Senegal, who had been trained by a TeoG team in the construction, operation and maintenance of incinerators in spring 2019, we were able to carry out the project as a remote project. This means that Techonology without Borders was not personally on site in Senegal, but coordinated and implemented the project from Germany. We are pleased about the successful cooperation with Hilfe für Senegal e. V. and the local technician on site.
Thank you very much for your interest!
If you have any questions or suggestions, please send them to lara.hachmann@teog.de
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