On average, a medical waste incinerator cost around $50,000, or 1/10th of what it cost to buy an old, second-hand battle tank from the Ukraine.



Peace Corps Volunteer Installs Medical Waste Incinerator in Ethiopian Health Center



WASHINGTON, D.C., July 2, 2012 - Peace Corps volunteer Jessica Mims of Trenton, N.J., is working with her Ethiopian community to install a medical waste incinerator in the local health center that will be used to properly dispose of used medical bandages and other trash. A portion of the funds for the incinerator are being raised through the Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP), a program that supports Peace Corps volunteer community projects worldwide.

“At this time, medical waste, bandages, surgical instruments, used needles and swabs are discarded in an open hole,” explained Mims, who has been working as a health volunteer in Ethiopia since May 2011. “This continuous behavior has led to an overflow of medical waste onto the health center's compound. In addition to the staff, there are families living on this compound. Their risk of exposure to this hazardous waste is substantial.”

Magnifying glass iconA pile of medical trash in Peace Corps volunteer Jessica Mims’ Ethiopian community. This type of waste will soon be disposed of in the new medical waste incinerator.
The PCPP funds will be used to purchase and install the incinerator and to train staff to ensure that the necessary knowledge and skills to properly manage the waste are gained. Local community members will contribute land for construction and will provide the man-power necessary for the clearing of waste from the site.

In order to receive funding through the PCPP, a community must make a 25 percent contribution to the total project and outline success indicators for the individual projects. This helps ensure community ownership and a greater chance of long-term sustainability. One hundred percent of each tax-deductible PCPP donation goes toward a development project.

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Thank you America for looking out for the well being of the thousands of people who live at the Korah trash dump in Addis Ababa where they find their food sifting through the garbage and risk being exposed to toxic medical waste dumped there.

Thanks

Morons like Jilo l.istro might buy your artificial concern, but we can read right through you shabia propaganda. One minute you insult the USA when they stick it on your dictator's a.ss and praise them when it suits your wrapped shabia mind. Not everyone here is like Chilo mamo kilo brother-man.

Morons like Jilo l.istro might buy your artificial concern, but we can read right through you shabia propaganda. One minute you insult the USA when they stick it on your dictator's a.ss and praise them when it suits your wrapped shabia mind. Not everyone here is like Chilo mamo kilo brother-man.

I'm an American and if I call you a slave, I'm not insulting myself nor you, but rather addressing you with the proper title you have earned through your servitude. When I say "JUMP!", you say "How High, Masta?"

Dying superpower America can go to hell.
And America should take back its puppet in Ethiopia and we don't need the alms of a dying superpower. And let America worry about 50 million hungry Americans.