Hospital personal, or the question, “what are the actual tasks of the care personnel?”

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Berlin/Leipzig. A topical matter is the drive to make savings in hospitals. A prevalent method to counteract rising costs is radical cuts in the care personnel. Reduced personal however often means reduced patient care. In addition, the personnel are often burdened with non-care tasks such as preparations for waste disposal. A topic which raises many hackles is the bed pan. The patented remedy from a Berlin-based firm could however provide the solution. How this works and what the first customers say about it will be set out in a lecture on the 26 April 2007 in Leipzig.

According to a press release from The German Hospital Federation from the 08.04.2007, the hospitals run up a deficit of 4 billion Euros a year. This dictates a tightening of the financial belt to save, save, save. Redundancies is a common answer to this dire financial situation. This in turn concentrates the patient care work on ever fewer shoulders. Added to this is the non-care activities which care personnel are forced to take on. An example for this is the use of the bed pan. For the care personnel this means the manual emptying of disposable containers of non-infectious body fluids. Qualified care staff carry out time consuming tasks with little relation to their principal task: caring for patients. In addition, this raises questions of hygiene. What is the reason for all of this? In order to reduce the amount of material to be disposed of, and to reduce the costs of disposal.
This is all unnecessary. The employment of the waste press GreenPak from ETLog Health GmbH obviates the need of sluicing the disposable containers. The waste is simply collected in containers, pressed in GreenPak and then taken to the rubbish.
ETLog Health EnviroTech & Logistics GmbH was requested to explain the use of GreenPak within the framework of an event of the Working group “Umweltschutz im Krankenhaus“ sächsischer Krankenhäuser e.V. on the 26.04.2007. In addition to technical and commercial facts, the lecture will also share the insight gained from the practical experience gathered with the example of the Accident and Emergency Hospital Berlin (UKB). The hospital has worked successfully for many years with GreenPak. Following its use, the hospital saved on the costs of more than 2200 costly disposable containers. When the costs of disposal are also taken into consideration, expenditure for the disposal of waste with a high proportion of fluid (disposal code 18 01 04) was reduced by 44 % in the first year of use. "The UKB will soon be in the position to reduce the entire cost of the disposal of fluid waste by more than a half," estimated Mrs Mertens, an employee of the Fa. BBges, the waste management officer in the UKB. This statement can be demonstrated with measurable results. Furthermore, the care-staff was also considerably unburdened.
In addition to ETLog Health EnviroTech & Logistics GmbH, Mrs Voigt, the waste management officer of the Berlin hospital of the Charité will also speak at the working meeting at the Leipzig Klinikum St Georg. The meeting is aimed at all the waste management officers of the health-care system in Sachsen and all those interested in the topic of waste disposal and who wish to learn more. The convention on the 26.04.2007 will begin at 10 O’clock. It is requested that those wishing to participate register first with Dr Klöß.

ETLog Health EnviroTech & Logistics GmbH is specialized in the health-care system. The Berlin based firm advises clinics, institutions and ministries in both Germany and abroad regarding the topic of waste management. Their waste press GreenPak for waste with the disposal code 180104 is operated in the UKB with great success. A visit to ETLog Health EnviroTech & Logistics GmbH can be arranged.

The working group, founded in November 1992 is an independent agency representing all the hospital with an interest in environmental protection in the federal state of Sachsen. The association is an exclusively non-profit organization. It currently has 23 members, of which 22 are hospitals and clinics. Information regarding the working group and the convention are available from Dr. Nicola Klöß, Universität Leipzig, Büro für Umweltschutz und Arbeitssicherheit, Ritterstraße 24, 04109 Leipzig, Tel:. 0341/9730360, E-Mail: nkloess(at)uni-leipzig.de.

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