There is no danger of an epidemiological crisis. There were years when a number of hospitals declared zero kilograms of hazardous waste, but we did not hear about any measures. Why has the ministry not taken measures? This was stated on bTV by Nadezhda Bobcheva, Deputy Mayor for Ecology in Sofia.
“Treating hazardous waste costs four times more than ordinary household waste. Hospitals save money by mixing it. We will take the solution that is best for Sofia residents“, she is categorical.
The authorities' proposal is for all waste to be incinerated.
Anton Hekimyan, a municipal councilor in the SOS from the GERB-SDF group, emphasized: “Let's say what the truth is. This garbage thing is crisis PR. We saw tons of statuses of “Save Sofia” and “Continue the change”, to hide an illegal landfill.”
Emilia Angelova from PP-DB-SS counters: “The decision for the Minister of Health to do his job and check all the contracts of the hospitals and the hazardous medical waste is working. The big question is where the hospital waste goes – we don't know about 80% of it. An epidemic can be learned if we continue to accept such waste at the landfill.”
“There is no specifics. I want to ask if there is an order issued by the mayor? I didn't hear anyone say which hospitals are throwing away, for example, the blood bank in the general trash. "You can't punish everyone," Hekimyan is categorical.
According to Angelova, during the GERB government, this garbage was buried in the ground.