Measures for Administrative Punishment on Medical Waste Management (Amended 2010)

Article 1 In accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes, and the Regulations on the Management of Medical Waste (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), the administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level responsible for health administration and the administrative departments of the people's governments responsible for environmental protection, in accordance with their respective duties, shall apply these Measures. Article 2 Where a medical and healthcare institution has one of the following circumstances as stipulated in Article 45 of the Regulations, the competent department of health administration of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order rectification within a certain period of time, and give a warning; and if it fails to do so, it shall be subject to a fine of not less than 2,000 yuan and not more than 5,000 yuan:

(a) Failure to establish and improve a medical waste management system, or failure to set up a monitoring department or a full-time (part-time) staff member

(2) the relevant personnel are not trained in relevant laws and professional skills, safety and security, as well as emergency treatment and other knowledge;

(3) the medical waste is not registered or not save the registration data;

(4) the use of medical waste transportation tools or delivery vehicles are not in the designated location in a timely manner for disinfection and cleaning;

(E) in accordance with the "Regulations" of their own medical waste disposal facilities built by health care institutions do not regularly on the medical waste disposal facilities for pollution prevention and control and hygienic effects of testing, evaluation, or not the test, evaluation of the effects of archiving, reporting. Article 3 of the centralized medical waste disposal unit has the "Regulations" Article 45 of the following circumstances, by the local people's government at or above the county level, the administrative department of environmental protection ordered to make corrections within a certain period of time, and given a warning; failure to make corrections after the deadline, shall be imposed a fine of more than 2,000 yuan to less than 5,000 yuan:

(a) failure to establish and improve the management system of medical wastes, or not set up a monitoring department or a full-time staff. (part-time) personnel;

(ii) Failure to train relevant personnel in relevant laws and professional skills, safety and protection, as well as emergency treatment and other knowledge;

(iii) Failure to register medical waste or failure to keep the registration information;

(iv) Failure to disinfect and clean the medical waste transport vehicles in a timely manner at the designated location after use;

(E) failure to collect and transport medical waste in a timely manner;

(F) failure to regularly test and evaluate the pollution prevention and hygienic effects of medical waste disposal facilities, or failure to archive and report the results of testing and evaluation. Article 4 medical and health institutions, centralized medical waste disposal units have "Regulations" Article 45 of the circumstances, not engaged in medical waste collection, transportation, storage, disposal and other personnel and management personnel to take occupational health protection measures, by the local people's government at or above the county level, the competent administrative department of health ordered to make corrections within a certain period of time, and shall be given a warning; failure to make corrections after the expiration of the deadline, shall be sentenced to a fine of more than 2,000 yuan 5,000 yuan A fine of not less than 2,000 yuan and not more than 5,000 yuan shall be imposed. Article 5 medical and health institutions have one of the following circumstances stipulated in Article 46 of the Regulations, the competent department of health administration of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order rectification within a certain period of time, and give a warning, and may impose a fine of not more than 5,000 yuan; if no rectification is made after the expiration of the period of time, the institution shall be subject to a fine of not less than 5,000 yuan and not more than 30,000 yuan:

(1) the storage facilities or equipments do not conform to the requirements of environmental protection and hygiene (A) storage facilities or equipment does not meet the environmental protection, health requirements;

(B) medical waste in accordance with the category is not placed in special packaging or containers;

(C) does not meet the standards of transportation means of transporting medical waste. Article 6 The centralized medical waste disposal unit has one of the following circumstances stipulated in Article 46 of the Regulations, the local people's government at or above the county level administrative department of environmental protection shall order rectification within a specified period of time, and give a warning, and may also impose a fine of not more than 5,000 yuan, and if it fails to rectify the situation after the expiration of the period of time, it shall be imposed a fine of not less than 5,000 yuan and not more than 30,000 yuan:

(1) the storage facilities or equipment do not meet Environmental protection, health requirements;

(2) medical waste in accordance with the category is not placed in special packaging or containers;

(3) does not meet the standards of the use of special vehicles to transport medical waste;

(4) failure to install pollutant emissions online monitoring devices or monitoring devices are not always in a normal operating state. Article 7 medical and health institutions have "Regulations" Article 47 of one of the following circumstances, by the local people's government at or above the county level, the competent department of health administration shall order rectification within a specified period of time, and give a warning, and impose a fine of 5,000 yuan or more than 10,000 yuan; overdue rectification, shall be imposed a fine of 10,000 yuan or more than 30,000 yuan:

(1) in the process of transportation within the health care institution to throw away the medical waste , dumping or piling up medical waste in non-storage locations or mixing medical waste with other wastes and domestic garbage;

(ii) failing to strictly disinfect sewage, excreta of patients with infectious diseases or patients suspected of having infectious diseases in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations, or failing to meet the state's emission standards, discharged into the sewage system within the health care institution;

(iii) Admission of infectious disease patients or suspected infectious disease patients generated by the domestic waste, not in accordance with the management and disposal of medical waste.

Health care institutions in the process of transporting medical waste outside the health care institutions discard medical waste, dumping, piling up of medical waste in non-storage sites or mixing medical waste with other wastes and domestic garbage, by the local people's government at or above the county level, the competent department of environmental protection in accordance with the "Chinese People's **** and the State Law on Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes", Article 75 shall order to stop the illegal behavior. A deadline for correction, and impose a fine of 10,000 yuan or more than 100,000 yuan.