The Integrated Provincial Health Office in Dumaguete City will construct a P4.5-million water treatment facility this year, and his office is now looking for an additional P2.5 million, Provincial Health Officer Dante Domingo said yesterday.

“We have to construct the facility within this year, otherwise, we will be jailed,” Domingo said in jest.

Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer Charlie Fabre said all establishments, including hospitals have to set up water treatment facility to ensure that their liquid wastes are sanitized before being thrown out to the canal en route to the sea.

This is required by the Clean Air Act, Fabre said.

The liquid wastes from the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital pass chlorine treatment to the laundry area, before it is bowled out to the canal, Domingo said.

He added that NOPH has practiced segregation of solid wastes by depositing them in a pathologic septic tank. Domingo said the hospital will also set up two on-site collection areas for solid wastes.*RA

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