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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

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Substituting Mercury-Based Devices in IndiaA lot has happened after a small report was released which documented the yearly release of this toxic heavy metal from health facilities using mercury based instruments and products. Many hospitals turned mercury free voluntarily and a few more shifted recently after the Delhi government order to phase out the use of mercury in the hospitals. To be mercury-free might be a voluntary decision for a few more years, but as environmental laws and quality accreditations become stricter this might be a mandatory requirement soon. Thus it is time for all of us to do some introspection and start changing. The experiences of people who have changed have been documented in the report and a small chronicle of what has happened on the mercury front has been profiled to help people in their journey to go ‘mercury free’.Download the complete document hereYou can...

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