Project data

Country: Turkmenistan

Region: Ashgabat

Project title: Turkmenistan - Health Care Waste Management

Contractual Partner: World Health Organization 

Financing agency: GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccination)

Project description:

In 2005, the Ministry of Heath of Turkmenistan expressed its interest in getting technical support from WHO in the field of injection safety and health-care waste management. A first mission took place in June 2005 to perform a rapid assessment of the situation. Since then the Ministry of Health has drafted a national plan of action and an Intersectoral Task Force was established.The overall objective of this assignment is to provide high expertise to the Ministry of Health on health-care waste management. The assignment will cover: 

• A brief desk review of existing documentation on health-care waste management for the specified country

• The participation to the Intersectoral Task Force with key partners at national level (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Environment, WHO, UNICEF and other stakeholders)

• To provide technical assistance to the finalization of the budgeted national plan of action on health-care waste management

Services provided by ETLog Health EnviroTech & Logistics GmbH:

• Visiting urban and rural health facilities and one medical waste treatment facility;

• Participating to the Intersectoral Task Force with key partners at national level;

• Bringing experiences of countries which already prepared national policy and plan of action on health-care waste management;

• Discussing outcomes of the meeting with national counterparts;

• Discussing with the Ministry of Health on further activities related to injection safety and healthcare waste management;

• Debriefing WHO Country Officer;

• Drafting a workplan for next phase’s activities.