Governmental Decree No. 94 validating the Regulation on the issues of medical waste management and handling of mercury-containing products in healthcare organizations of the Kyrgyz Republic.

This Governmental Decree regulates the issues of medical waste management and handling of mercury-containing products in healthcare organizations with a view of ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population, preventing harmful effects on human health and environment and improving systematization of the rules for handling waste from healthcare organizations. It determines the requirements for separation, collection, packaging, labeling, accounting, storage, transportation, decontamination and/or disposal of all types of medical waste, as well as other waste generated in healthcare organizations, with the exception of radioactive waste. Medical waste shall be classified in 5 categories: 1) class A - epidemiologically safe medical waste, close in composition to solid household waste; 2) class B - epidemiologically hazardous medical waste; 3) class C - extremely epidemiologically hazardous medical waste; 4) class D - toxicologically hazardous medical waste of I-IV hazard classes; and 5) Class E - radioactive medical waste. Collection and storage of mercury-containing products shall be authorized only in closed and locked rooms equipped with supply and exhaust or exhaust ventilation. In the absence of such an opportunity, the possibility of natural ventilation should be provided in the indicated rooms.