Japan helps Sri Lanka hospitals manage waste, with equipment and 5S
EconomyNext: Japan is providing equipment to manage infectious waste at 15 hospitals across Sri Lanka, along with training, including on 5S and Kaizen concepts, the Japanese embassy in Colombo said.
Under this project, medical waste incinerators with temperature control and exhaust gas treatment systems are being provided to 15 hospitals across all 9 provinces of Sri Lanka.
Together with technical training on proper waste management and equipment operation, the project aims to strengthen infection prevention and control capacity nationwide.
The equipment was provided under a project for which the exchange of notes was signed in April 2023 with grant assistance of JPY 503 million from Japan, the embassy said in a statement.
Japanese ambassador Akio Isomata attended the handover ceremony at Trincomalee General Hospital, with Minister of Health Nalinda Jayathissa, and Chief Representative of Sri Lanka Office Kenji Kuronuma.
The project strengthens healthcare workers’ capacity through Kaizen, 5S and TQM methods training, ambassador Isomata was quoted as saying.
For bilateral cooperation to be sustainable, he added, private sector partnership should be promoted in medical and related industrial areas.
The project’s capacity development component includes Training of Trainers (ToT), utilizing nudge theory based on modern behavioral sciences, the embassy said.
“Using this ToT approach, the knowledge learnt cascades from Health Ministry officials to hospital infection control officers, and on to broader groups of medical service personnel, thus effectively creating a safer medical environment on a wider basis.”
Trincomalee General Hospital is to get a Catheterization Laboratory in two years through an ongoing yen loan project.
OSL take:
There are many business/investment opportunities emerging in Sri Lanka’s healthcare sector. As the country has become an emerging business destination in the region while also promoting health and wellness tourism among foreign tourists to the country, Sri Lanka’s healthcare industry has shown much expansion. This expansion in turn has opened a host of business/investment opportunities in the country’s healthcare industry and related sectors. While there are direct business/investment opportunities emerging in the development of infrastructure and supplementary infrastructure facilities as well as introducing the latest global technologies, there are also opportunities emerging in sectors related to the healthcare industry. Japan providing equipment to manage infectious waste at 15 hospitals across Sri Lanka also indicates more business/investment opportunities in the healthcare industry and the foreign funding being received for such developments. Given all these factors including the increasing business potential and the profits recorded by businesses in the local healthcare industry and related sectors, foreign businesses/investors could confidently explore the expanding business/investment opportunities in the industry.
| Article Code : | VBS/AT/20250915/Z_3 |