Why was medical waste found in the water source?

In response to the netizen's reflection of the "Youjia round northwest of the reservoir near the dumping of medical waste", Shaanxi Yulin City Environmental Protection Bureau, the relevant person in charge of the July 29, the reservoir is the municipal government to establish a drinking water source, the vicinity of the dumping of medical waste is true, and has been carried out to investigate. Yulin City Water Bureau staff said that the garbage has now been recycled by the hospital, the verification did not cause pollution to the water source. WeChat public number "Saiwai knife guest" on July 27, released an article said, from Yulin city drinking water source Youjia round reservoir about one kilometer southwest of the new district woods.

There are three areas where a large amount of medical waste has been dumped, mainly discarded infusion bottles, of which there are thousands. Infusion bottles are written on the "Yulin Medical College Affiliated Hospital", also marked with the patient's name, department, doctor's name and medication time, dumping location is more hidden. Pictures of the scene show that the original infusion bottles in black or transparent plastic bags, because part of the plastic bag rupture scattered all over the place, part of the infusion bottles have been broken. Yulin Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau publicity and education information center, a director surnamed Wang told the surging news on July 29, Youjiaxuan Reservoir is the municipal government to establish the water source, bear the high-tech zone of Yulin City, 100,000 people of water supply work.

At present, the municipal environmental protection bureau Yuyang District Branch has launched an investigation into the situation. The same day afternoon, the yuyang district water affairs bureau staff responded to this said, July 27 found medical waste, you home mount reservoir responsible person immediately contacted the hospital affiliated with the Yulin medical college involved in the incident, asked to clean up the garbage. After the field investigation found that the garbage dumping point in the reservoir outside the secondary protection zone, and the reservoir distance of more than one kilometer. As the reservoir water source 24-hour inspection range are within the scope of the secondary protection zone, so not found before.

The above staff said, after verification, the dumped medical waste does not contain harmful substances, most of which are packed, and is located outside the safe waters of the reservoir, the water source did not cause pollution. Yulin Medical College Hospital publicity and education section staff said on July 29, the hospital medical waste dumping by the logistics management department responsible for a fixed dumping site. Because of the medical and surrounding people's drinking water safety, hospital logistics management, administration and other departments have been investigated, and actively cooperate with the higher authorities.