![]() ![]() Jamaica is guided by the Stockholm Convention on the Elimination of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Policy Paper on Healthcare Waste Management regarding the treatment of medical waste. Inside the drums, there were small glass vials, and charred packets of tablets. The incinerator was inactive during a visit by our news team, but more than a dozen drums filled with ashes were seen as well as burnt debris scattered around the apparatus. ![]() There was no perimeter fence or signs to indicate the operators or the nature of their activities at the location. The Sunday Gleaner gained access to the unsecured property housing the incinerator quite easily last week. Sometimes I have to get up and sit up in the bed to catch my breath.” GUIDED BY INTERNATIONAL PROTOCOLS I don’t know if it is because of the incinerator, but at night-time, I can’t breathe. “People down here suffer from asthma others like myself suffer from serious sinusitis. Somebody needs to tell us something,” the citizens’ association head insisted. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.
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