Year: 2017
Resolution Number: 62
Action Taken: Approved
Status: Complete
Author(s): Alan Mindlin, MD, FACS
Sponsor: Alan Mindlin, MD, FACS
On behalf of: Oakland County Delegation
Committee: D (Public Health)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS actively advocate, seek, and support legislation to require alternative sites such as hospitals, pharmacies, police departments, county health organizations or other designated sites on an as needed basis and with no cost to patients for the disposal of injectable medical waste so as to protect the public, as well as the families of the patients using medical injectables, from unwanted accidental exposure to needles used for authorized medical injections and thus insure their appropriate disposal instead of potential contamination of the environment; the availability of alternative sites at no cost to the patients using medical injectables for authorized medical injections; and, the requirement that any pharmacy that sells injectable medications have a sharps container readily available to recycle medical waste.
RESOLVED: That MSMS actively advocate, seek, and support legislation to require alternative sites such as hospitals, pharmacies, police departments, county health organizations or other designated sites on an as needed basis and with no cost to patients for the disposal of injectable medical waste so as to protect the public, as well as the families of the patients using medical injectables, from unwanted accidental exposure to needles used for authorized medical injections and thus insure their appropriate disposal instead of potential contamination of the environment; the availability of alternative sites at no cost to the patients using medical injectables for authorized medical injections; and, the requirement that any pharmacy that sells injectable medications have a sharps container readily available to recycle medical waste.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Increased Disposal Locations for Injectable Medical Waste
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