DECRYPTION – The concept of eco-design of care is now gaining ground among professionals. On the program: prevention, reduction of prescriptions and elimination of waste.
“Did you know that a surgical operation has the same carbon footprint as a Paris-Lyon return trip by car, and that it produces as much waste as a family of four for a week?”challenges the Pr Karem Slim, surgeon at Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital and general secretary of the Eco-Responsible Health Collective (Ceres). Few healthcare professionals and even fewer patients are aware of these data. Because if we often talk about the effects of climate change on our health, we are much less concerned about the impact of the health sector on the environment.
However, hospitals but also private health professionals use energy in quantity, consume multiple resources (plastics, paper, metals, water, etc.) and produce a lot of waste. For example, 700,000 tons of rubbish come out of health care establishments each year and 700 to 1,200 liters of water are consumed there per day and per patient… In France, the health sector would represent…
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