Tokyo, Dec 20 (Ians) Increased use of pharmaceuticals spiked carbon emissions during the Covid-19 pandemic despite carbon footprint reduction efforts, new research has revealed.
A group of researchers measuring carbon emissions in a large university hospital with a research centre in central Japan found that its overall carbon footprint increased over a decade.
However, they also found that carbon emissions from gas and electricity decreased during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It is urgent to assess the reality of medical carbon emissions because medical staff cannot sacrifice future generations using the excuse of saving present patients,” said Takanori Yamamoto from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine.
It is also important to promote public health measures to reduce future medical demands, because the world is facing an ageing society, overtreatment, overdiagnosis and unnecessary visits to hospital,” Yamamoto said in the study published in the journal Globalisation and Health.
The research team found that the...
A group of researchers measuring carbon emissions in a large university hospital with a research centre in central Japan found that its overall carbon footprint increased over a decade.
However, they also found that carbon emissions from gas and electricity decreased during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It is urgent to assess the reality of medical carbon emissions because medical staff cannot sacrifice future generations using the excuse of saving present patients,” said Takanori Yamamoto from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine.
It is also important to promote public health measures to reduce future medical demands, because the world is facing an ageing society, overtreatment, overdiagnosis and unnecessary visits to hospital,” Yamamoto said in the study published in the journal Globalisation and Health.
The research team found that the...
- 12/20/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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