Water Pollution Discharge Standards for Medical Institutions

Legal Analysis: Water Pollution Discharge Standards for Medical Institutions: Comprehensive medical institutions with infectious disease rooms should separate sewage from non-infectious disease rooms. Sewage and feces from infectious disease rooms shall be disinfected before they are combined with other sewage.

The sewage of medical institutions which is disinfected by chlorine-containing disinfectants shall be dechlorinated to make the total residual chlorine less than 0.5mg/L if it is directly discharged into surface waters and sea areas.

Legal Basis: Discharge Standards for Water Pollutants in Medical Institutions (Standard No. GB 18466-2005)

4.1 Requirements for Sewage Discharge

4.1.1 Infectious diseases and tuberculosis medical institutions sewage discharge all implement the provisions of Table 1.

4.1.2 County and above or 20 beds and above comprehensive medical institutions and other medical institutions sewage discharge to implement the provisions of Table 2. Directly or indirectly discharged into surface water bodies and marine areas of sewage discharge standards, sewage discharged into the terminal has been built with normal operation of urban secondary sewage treatment plant sewage, the implementation of pre-treatment standards.