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(From The Jakarta Post)
The city administration is advised to take tough measures against 39 hospitals in the city that do not treat their medical waste properly, because such waste could endanger people's health and damage the environment.
Besides the 39 hospitals, hundreds of community health centers in the capital also do not treat their medical waste properly, environmental engineer Nusa Idaman Said from the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) said on Sunday.
"Many of the hospitals and health centers dump infectious waste together with common domestic waste at the Bantar Gebang dump in Bekasi," Nusa told The Jakarta …