Over 7,200 public and private hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City do not have
standard wastewater treatment systems, the Department of Health has reported.

These medical clinics
have only rudimentary systems at the best and discharged their wastewater into
septic tanks, which are then released into the sewerage system.

The old waste water
treatment facilities of the Traumatic Orthopedic Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.
Over 7,200 public and private hospitals do not have wastewater treatment system
or the old facilities can’t meet the increase in usage.

Approximately 45
central, city and district hospitals and private clinics, have not improved
their wastewater treatment systems and the old systems cannot satisfy the
increase in usage. The wastewater system is overloaded.

Hospitals said they
are short of skill personnel in dealing with the issue, while the relevant
agencies have yet to penalize any hospital or clinic that do not meet the
requirements of a modern waste treatment system.

However, the city
Department of Natural Resources and Environment has fined the Mental Hospital
in District 5. The hospital was fined VND6 million and was forced to quickly
construct a modern standard wastewater treatment facility.

Hospitals in the city
have dumped thousands cubic meters of wastewater into the river environments
every day.

Source: SGGP