Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan (AntaranewsKalsel) - Head of Banjarmasin Health Agency or Kadinkes Diah R Praswati ensure, sewage of city government hospital at Jalan RK Ilir adjacent to Martapura River safe and not to pollute the environment.


"Document of its environmental impact assessment (EIA) was already there. Supervision is very tight from the Ministry of Health. So it has a very safe management of waste later, will not throw carelessly" she said in Banjarmasin, Thursday.

She made sure, municipal government hospital later will not treat waste carelessly, but in accordance with the standards supervision by the government and the Ministry of Health (MoH). "So I'm sure it not going to pollute the river," she said.

The hospital development plan has been exposed in the Ministry of Health, and of course, with a mature thought related to waste production later to be managed properly so as not to pollute the environment, especially to pollute Martapura River.

"So that's our guarantee of the existence of public concern over the possibility of leakage of hospital waste later to Martapura River," said Diah who became head of Health Agency for the past two mayors.

Statement of the female physicians is the answer to criticism DPD member from South Kalimantan Bahasyim Habib Abdurrahman who expressed less agreed to hospital development adjacent to Martapura River by reason of waste feared to go into the river.

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Editor : Mahdani


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