ZAGREB, Feb 3 (Hina) - The incineration of old medicines donated from the world to Croatia during the war in the early 1990s is likely to start this March. The entire job will take one year, said Nikola Benic, the Health Ministry's
official in charge of the conduct of a project of incineration of medicines which cannot be used. This month the Ministry and a Zagreb firm are going to sign an agreement on burning 2.500 tonnes of the donated old drugs. The costs of the entire project are 13.5 million kuna (some 1.7 million US dollars). The financial means for this purpose will be earmarked from a US $30-million-loan the World Bank has granted to Croatia's ministry. According to Benic, the most critical situation is in the biggest coastal city of Split where the donated useless medicines are stored in railway carriages. They have become clammy and pose a threat to local people's health. After that,
ZAGREB, Feb 3 (Hina) - The incineration of old medicines donated
from the world to Croatia during the war in the early 1990s is likely
to start this March.
The entire job will take one year, said Nikola Benic, the Health
Ministry's official in charge of the conduct of a project of
incineration of medicines which cannot be used.
This month the Ministry and a Zagreb firm are going to sign an
agreement on burning 2.500 tonnes of the donated old drugs.
The costs of the entire project are 13.5 million kuna (some 1.7
million US dollars). The financial means for this purpose will be
earmarked from a US $30-million-loan the World Bank has granted to
Croatia's ministry.
According to Benic, the most critical situation is in the biggest
coastal city of Split where the donated useless medicines are
stored in railway carriages. They have become clammy and pose a
threat to local people's health.
After that, tablets and drugs stored in Zadar, another coastal
town, will be incinerated.
The entire job will be done under the control of toxicologists and
officials of the Environmental Protection Ministry.
(hina) ms