Framework environmental management plan

2.4.5Order of Minister of Health no. 713/2004 regarding the approval of sanitary authorization Norms for the hospitals

This Order is very important from the organizational point of view. In particular:

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  it defines the functioning authorization for the hospitals and the necessary standards to be fulfilled in order to obtain this authorization
  
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  annex 1 defines the procedural norms for the sanitary authorization of hospital operation
  
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  annex 2 stipulates the norms of general functional organization of the hospital
  
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  annex 3 stipulates norms concerning the functional structure of the hospital departments and services, including the emergency service, ambulatory sector, operating sector, intensive care sector, roentgen diagonstic service.
  
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  annex 4 stipulates the general Norms of hygiene.
  

2.4.6Order of Minister of Health no. 1279 of 14 December, 2012 establishing the Criteria for assessment, functioning conditions and monitoring for equipment for treating by thermal decontamination of medical waste

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  sets out the minimum criteria for technical documentation of equipment for thermal decontamination at low temperatures of hazardous medical waste
  
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  reiterates and elaborates on maximum waste reductionrequirements
  
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  specifies the three categories of medical waste that may be sterilized as: infectious waste, stinging-cutting waste, and chemical and pharmaceutical wastes according to specific codes
  
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  specifies this thermal sterilization of medical waste is the only accepted procedure for such waste and was permitted until the end of 2008 only, when, following the commissioning of incineration facilities, all hazardous waste, including sterilized waste, will be incinerated, in accordance with the implementation plan of the EU Waste Incineration Directive.