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- Makati City, Metro ManilaAiming to be the 1st Green Hospital in the Philippines with solar power air conditioning and cell site, Makati Medical Center started mercury phase-out upon receipt of AO 21 in the office of Medical Director Dr. Benjamin N. Alimurung.Dr. Alimurung immediately collaborated with the hospital’s Facility Management and Engineering Department, Purchasing Department, Hospital Waste Management Subcommittee and Total Quality Services Division to create the Mercury Management team. The team immediately discontinued distribution of mercury thermometers in the patient’s admission and discharge kits and conducted a mercury audit. After a month, the Mercury Minimization Program was in full swing.The Basic and Advance Course on Pollution Control given ty the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) also introduces the issue of mercury phase-out in the hospitalThe transition was gradual-each month, the Nursing Service Officer schedules with the Purchasing department the number of mercury...

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- Pasay City, Metro ManilaAmong the 1st hospitals to veer from mercury devices as early as 2007, Manila Adventist Medical Center was moved to take action away from mercury by Sabina L. Farinas, MAMC Quality Assurance Coordinator, and by Health Care Without Harm seminar. Even before AO 21, the hospital already had initiatives to choose mercury-free alternatives.When AO 21 came, the Administrative committee discussed their compliance and gave a directive to the QA Coordinator to disseminate information to the different nursing units.They then acquired budget quotations from suppliers of mercury alternatives and proceeded with the total phase-out.Reasons for the phase-out? Pccupational safety, patient safety and concern to the environment.“The love of nature and the desire to save mother earth, as well as the safety of our workers and of our patients, should be the goal of our hospitals.”To date, MAMC is also into waste...