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Vietnam hospital fined for dumping 63 tons of untreated medical waste

Xinhua, September 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

Vietnam's southern Tay Ninh province fined a private hospital 1.4 billion Vietnamese dong (62,300 U.S. dollars) for illegally dumping 63 tons of untreated medical waste at a vacant residential site, local online newspaper Thanh Nien (Young People) News reported on Friday.

A truck that Le Ngoc Tung Private Hospital hired to transport the waste has been seized. The hospital was also ordered to pay nearly 500 million Vietnamese dong to the Hue Phuong Green Environment Company for carrying out tests, excavating the waste and treating the environment.

In June, the environmental police had caught two guards from the hospital trying to bury sacks of placentas, used needles, bandages and blood collection tubes.

The hospital claimed to have buried only six tons of untreated medical wastes, but excavations found 63 tons. Endi