Morocco Faces Concerns Over Improper Disposal of COVID-19 Medical Waste

These deputies from the parliamentary majority have expressed their concern about several public hospitals and private clinics, as well as the companies in charge of waste management, who are inappropriately getting rid of the medical and pharmaceutical waste (DMP) generated by the treatment of covid-19.

In a written question, the president of the PJD group in the House of Advisors, Nabil Chikhi, explained that "the collection and treatment of medical waste constitutes a real danger for the citizen and for the environment". For him, it is urgent that hospital centers and waste management companies "take the maximum security and prevention measures" to put an end to "the proliferation of this waste in certain public landfills, particularly in Agadir," reports le360.

A few weeks ago, the UN Environment Technology Center had sounded the alarm by indicating that "the inadequate treatment of this waste entails serious risks related to the transmission of infectious diseases to garbage collectors, doctors, patients and consequently, to the entire environment". It also stressed that countries must "treat medical waste using thermal, chemical and biological techniques".