MEDICAL WASTE STILL WAITING .... TO BE ELIMINATED

Soon infrastructures will be set up to eliminate expired medicine and waste, Tatul Hakobyan, deputy health minister, told Panorama.am. He said such drugs may either be buried or burnt. Hakobyan informed that some companies are interested in elimination of medical waste. However, he did not name any.

The deputy health minister did not mentioned the volume of expired medicine and medical waste that have come to Armenia under humanitarian assistance and for some reasons accumulated here. Our sources say such drugs weigh more than ten tones.