The Nantou County Health Bureau reminded the public that if there are expired medicines at home, they can be recycled in medical institutions.

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[Reporter Xie Jieyu/Report from Nantou] The Nantou County Health Bureau has often received inquiries from the public recently. When cleaning up the house, they found that the elders in the family stored expired medicines and used needles and needles. How to deal with them?

Can you flush the toilet directly? Or throw it in the garbage truck?

Questions such as whether they will be punished or not are very disturbing and headaches. The Health Bureau has specially proposed 2 major principles and 6 steps for the public to follow.

Nantou County Health Director Chen Nansong said that discarded medicines or medical equipment at home must not be flushed directly into the toilet or discarded at will, so as not to cause river soil pollution, and improper disposal behaviors will not only cause waste of medical resources, but also cause waste of medicines and waste medical treatment. If the equipment enters the environment and food chain, it will directly or indirectly affect human health, and even have the risk of infecting diseases. It will also violate relevant laws and regulations such as the waste disposal law and be punished, so be careful!

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Therefore, the Health Bureau reminds the public that if there are expired drugs or medical equipment, please grasp the two principles of special or general drugs, such as anti-cancer, immunosuppressive drugs, antibiotics, controlled drugs, hormones and other special drugs, as well as used Waste needles, needles and other drugs that are harmful to the ecological environment should be taken to the original receiving hospital, clinic or pharmacy for recycling.

As for general medicines, they can be processed in accordance with the six steps of "pouring, rinsing, concentrating, mixing, sealing, and recycling".

1 Pour: Pour the remaining potion into the zipper bag.

2 Rinse: Pour the water used to rinse the medicine tank into the zipper bag.

3 Concentration: The discarded pills and capsules are taken out from the aluminum foil or medicine bag packaging and put into the zipper bag.

4 Mixing: Put used paper towels, tea leaves or coffee grounds, etc. into a zipper bag and mix together.

5 Sealing: Seal the zipper bag well and remove it with general garbage.

6 Recycling: Clean medicine bottles and bags can be recycled.

The Health Bureau appeals to the public, if they cannot distinguish the type of drugs or medical equipment, they can go to hospitals, clinics and community pharmacies in the county to consult professional doctors or pharmacists about the correct drug recycling method, or contact the Health Bureau hotline 049-2230518 .

The Nantou County Health Bureau appeals to the public to grasp the two principles of handling special or general medicines for expired medicines.

(Photo provided by Nantou County Health Bureau)

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