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New York’s largest health care provider is reducing the spread of Covid-19 by adopting new technology developed by a local firm that safely neutralises infectious medical waste. Northwell Health, which has 23 hospitals and 800 outpatient facilities, is the first healthcare provider globally to implement Technopath’s new on-site medical waste treatment technology for COVID-19 infected medical waste. Developed by Technopath Clinical Diagnostics, Ballina, Killaloe, the Envetec 200 system simultaneously shreds and disinfects infectious medical waste using a patented destruction and disinfection process that kills COVID-19 viruses along with all bacteria, spores and other pathogens that pose a danger to human health. Technopath’s Envetec 200 system supports the urgent need to safely treat infectious waste using a patented destruction and disinfection process that kills COVID-19 and all other viruses and pathogens Treatment efficiently manages medical waste on-site preventing the further spread of the virus as well as removing public health risks caused by transporting waste across state lines and international borders. …
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