ORGANIC SCRAPS HAVE NO "LANDING"

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[12:21 pm] 22 January, 2009

The junkyard of Giumri is making its way to residential areas and it
is full of everything besides daily garbage. The organic scraps are
thrown in the junkyard. The presence of organic scraps in the junkyard
may lead to possible negative consequences. The local correspondents
know about this, but they haven’t paid attention to this for years.

The maternal ward, oncology hospital and morgue of Gyumri are the main
medical institutions where there is organic waste. Hospital workers
weren’t able to say how many scraps are thrown on a daily basis. They
said that it depends on the number and type of operations. It is not
hard to imagine how much waste the three medical institutions throw
away all together. The city has not had any crematories since Soviet
times and the issue remains to date.

There is no state approach or plan. As a result, each hospital is in
charge of the scraps and must eliminate them and hospitals have found
a solution to their problems by throwing the scraps in the junkyard.

Everybody avoids talking about the organic scraps. The head of the
oncology hospital refused to comment. There are a lot of operations
and scraps, but this subject is closed. None of the hospitals knows
how to get rid of the scraps, but they have to be burnt under high
temperature.

Three years ago, it was decided that each hospital must have its
crematory and that it will receive government-funding. When the law
on "Funerals and Exploitation of Cemeteries and Morgues" went into
effect on January 1, 2006, it was decided to save the money based
on the argument that there would be no difference between morgues
and crematories. If we believe the higher and lower instance courts,
the morgue should have been built in Giumri since 2008.

Why was it postponed? What happened to the funds? Perhaps the only
person to answer these and other questions avoids the topic. This
is a closed subject for the head of the health department and the
hospital must think about the issue of scraps.