Doctors tend to a coronavirus patient in the intensive care unit at the di Circolo hospital in Varese.
Medics at the Cremona hospital in the Mediterranean country’s north say the surge in patients since March has made the issue of its safe disposal particularly sensitive. “Compared to the time before the pandemic, the amount of potentially infectious waste has doubled or nearly tripled,” the hospital’s waste management director Maria Rosaria Vino told AFP.Its spread is ebbing and the country’s leaders are preparing to lift some of the strictest confinement measures in the weeks to come.“The risk is increased because we handle potentially infectious waste,” said Luciano Masseroni, a waste operator.
“We have trained disposal teams to wear all the protective equipment. They do not face any added risk,” hospital medical director Lorenzo Cammelli said.