The health industry worldwide is number four in global pollution. There are many reasons for these: plastic of one single use, toxic, electronic, food, water waste or internal process are the principal causes. The pharmaceutical products contribute in their hole life-cycle to pollute air, soil and water. In this webinar we will be talking how the pharmaceutical industry pollutes, what happens at the hospital (and home) with pharmaceutical waste, how each person that takes a pharmaceutical product also produces waste and the most important thing what we can do to reduce it. As health providers we have a responsibility in pharmaceutical waste management.

Paulina Seguí is an anesthesiologist at ABC Medical Center, an institution that is a member of Health Care without Harm Latinamerica (Salud sin Daño) and she is a member of Green Doctors of HCWH Europe. She has developed several projects on waste sorting and reducing at the operation room, including waste pharmaceutical products. Collaborates with Colectiva Zurciendo el Planeta (300 women embroidering with reuse fabric a Forest that went to COP26, several parts of Mexico and is now at Argentina). She writes and publishes illustrated album relating glands of the body with different ecosystems of Mexico and also new ways of tackle some diseases or conditions.