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El jueves 22 de febrero, se realizó el seminario web "Hacia una transición justa para el desarrollo…

Greening the Healthcare Sector in Nepal: lessons learned was the event that concluded the "Support…

Shweta Narayan, Health Care Without Harm’s International climate and health campaigner, and Dr…

In Nepal, hospitals and health care centers generate between 1 and 1.7 kg of health care waste per…

Our objective is to lead the health sector in reducing social disparities intersecting with climate mitigation and resilience, and amplify the voices of the most impacted communities.

The GGHH aims to promote greater sustainability and environmental health in the health sector, as well as support existing efforts around the world. Through these efforts, we hope to create a global health care network that is both greener and more unified.To achieve this, we’ve created a framework made up of ten interconnected goals. Each contains a series of Action Items for hospitals and health systems to implement.  Most hospitals will want to focus on two or three goals, and chart a course for specific steps to achieve them, with a plan to subsequently move on to the next challenge.  The Ten Goals:1. LEADERSHIPAgenda intent:• Prioritize environmental health as a strategic imperative.• Demonstrate leadership support for green and healthy hospitals in order to: create long-term organizational culture change; realize widespread hospital worker and community engagement; and foster public policy...

While the GGHH is a young organization, some very well-respected institutions have become founding members in all three membership categories: Hospitals, Health Systems, and Health Organizations. This roster includes institutions from countries on six continents. Hospitals in Asia play a vital role in this global network. Below are lists of hospitals, health systems and organizations in the region that have pledged to adopt greener and healthier procedures.Health system membersDepartment of Health - GREEN and CLEAN Hospitals Program (Thailand) with its 746 hospitals and 3,099 sub district hospitals under the Bureau of Environmental Health, Department of Health, Ministry of Health is one of the health system member to the Network committing to publicize through the GREEN and CLEAN Hospitals program the Agenda and encourage their members to join and share their experiences. The system pledged to work on four goals: leadership, energy, waste, and food. St. Paul de Chartres...

Health Care Without Harm in Asia is committed to making health care greener. In 2019, our global programs are accelerating the reduction of health care greenhouse gas emissions, building greater health system resilience, protecting people from the health impacts of biomedical waste, and reducing the social and environmental footprint of health care’s supply chain.Most importantly, we continue to build an ever growing and more dynamic set of networks—a worldwide community.To know more about our programs, and the issues they address in the Region, click below:Climate Change and Health in AsiaPlastics in HealthcareSafer ChemicalsGlobal Green and Healthy HospitalsDo No Harm AwardsWe are also on Social Media!#HealthyHospitals4All#HealthForClimate

It’s a strange twist that efforts to heal the sick and make people healthier can create waste products that harm others. Hospitals generate medical waste that, if not processed properly, can harm those exposed to it.Read more about Medical Waste, its sources, and our campaigns to control it, but clicking below:Know the IssueWaste MinimizationPromoting Alternative TechnologiesModel HospitalsMedWaste Country SpotlightTools & Resources