Dump stench leaves hospital feeling sick

At the present time, some people may think about hospital as the first place they can go when they get sick. Then hospital is a place where people can get back to good health. In this post, however, I would like to talk about stench from a rubbish dump behind northern Bac Ninh Province's Luong Tai District Hospital that made both patients and staff ill. The reason why I choose this news article is because this misery situation is happened near a very important place. Hospital should be the cleanest place which protected from the bacteria, isn't it?

In this news article, it was said that the wastes from Thua town were delivered by numerous garbage trucks to the dump of about 6,000 sq.m. everyday. This 10-year-old dump is about 35km. north of Ha Noi. Patients and staff that stayed in the hospital had to suffer the fetid smell. Furthermore, the garbage dump also attracted swarms of flies that carried the threat of disease. The hospital deputy director Pham Van Vu said that he have asked the Thua People's Committee to remove the dump numberless times since 2006 but his requests have been ignored from them. In addition, the hospital statistics show that about 300 patients are examined and treated at the hospital each day. Moreover, the number of pregnant women it admits each year is almost 2,000. Because of the fetid smell they often leave the hospital early after they have given birth. Therefore, the plan of 36,000-sq.m landfill at another site of the town which put to the provincial People's Committee by Nguyen Dang had been rejected because it failed to meet environmental protection standards. The People's Committee was now assessing another place for a new rubbish dump. Although the complaints of both the hospital and local residents had been received from Thua People's Committee, the committee was also awaiting instructions from the provincial People's Committee which show to how to deal with the problem.

In my opinion, I think it was a really serious problem that the committee should solve this problem as soon as possible. It is happened for 10 years already. Moreover, the dump is very close to the hospital which have many ill people stay in there. This garbage dump also caused many disease which carried from flies of garbage. To compare with Thailand, I haven't heard anything about the rubbish dump near hospital before. But most of the dump stench are causing problem to the people who stay near to the river. Because they always throw the rubbish into the river. Over all, Thai's government are also encourage people who stay near to the river not to drop any wastes into the river.