Northern Health Pollutes Prince Rupert Harbour
What’s In That Crab you’re Eating?
Have you ever wondered where all the Prince Rupert Hospital waste goes? You know – the fecal matter, the blood, the surgery waste, the laundry waste, and all the germs and disease a Hospital collects.
Yes we agree with you that sometimes ignorance is bliss. But given the nature of hospital waste we thought we should find out how the Prince Rupert Hospital protects the citizens of Prince Rupert from this disease and pollution.
Guess what – it’s a straight flush from the Hospital to the Prince Rupert Harbour. No treatment, no added chemicals to kill the germs, no filtering of the waste – just a straight flush. If it can go down the toilet it goes straight to the Harbour.
The Northern Health hospital team relies on the crabs and tidal washing for pollution control. The tides are expected to wash away the liquid pollution and the crabs are expected to eat the solid waste. Maybe that is why they are so juicy and tasty.
On a more serious note we simply cannot believe that an organization that purports to cure the sick would dump the untreated waste from these same sick people into a local waterway. A waterway the residents use daily for leisure and food.
In a previous article we talked of how the local hospital management reduced the laundry hot water temperature in order to save money and fire some the staff. So now we can’t be sure if the bugs and disease are killed in the washing machines or are simply washed out to the harbour.
There is no testing of the hospital discharge – this costs money and Northern Health doesn’t really care. You know the saying: out of sight and out of mind.
And bye the way – guess who the local Environmental Health Inspectors works for. You’re right – Northern Health. Show me an inspector willing to report the Hospital for dumping waste in our water and I’ll show you an unemployed inspector. And another bye the way – there wasn’t even an inspector located in Prince Rupert for the last several years even though the position existed. Just goes to show where the Northern Health spending priorities are.
We really need to look at the actions of Northern Health and for our community the actions of the Prince Rupert Hospital. This is an organization that spends millions and millions of $’s every year and yet continue to dump its untreated waste into the Prince Rupert Harbour. Again we ask the question – What’s in that crab you’re eating?
Next article – Is Northern Health hiring 2nd class managers in their remote locations?
