Desain kendaraan pengolah limbah medis Covid-19
P andemi COVID-19 merupakan permasalahan global dan membutuhkanfasilitas pelayanan kesehatan. Semakin tingginya aktivitas pelayanankesehatan menyebabkan meningkatnya jumlah limbah medis. Saat inipenumpukan limbah medis di Indonesia melebihi kapasitas pengolahanlimbah medis yang tersedia. Tidak tersedianya fasilitas pengolahan limbahmedis di sebagian daerah turut menghambat penanganan limbah medis.Tidak meratanya fasilitas pengolahan serta penumpukan limbah medisCOVID-19 menjadi kendala dan salah satu faktor penyebaran COVID-19,oleh karena itu dibutuhkan pengolahan limbah medis yang terintegrasidengan kendaraan sehingga memungkinkan proses pengolahan dilakukansecara mobile, menjadikan penanganan limbah medis menjadi lebih efisien,dan unit dapat dikerahkan dengan cepat ke daerah yang membutuhkanfasilitas pengolahan limbah medis
T he COVID-19 pandemic is a global problem which requires health servicefacilities. The increasing number of health service activities is causingexcessive production of medical waste. Currently the accumulation ofmedical waste in Indonesia exceeds the available medical waste treatmentcapacity. The unavailability of medical waste treatment facilities in someareas has also hampered the handling of medical waste.Unequal spread of facilities for processing and the accumulation of COVID-19 medical waste are some of main factors for the spread of COVID-19,therefore it requires medical waste processing that is integrated with vehicles to allow mobile processing, making the management of medicalwaste to be more efficient, and could be deployed rapidly to areas in need of medical waste treatment facilities