Over 200 hospital workers in Metro Manila completed training courses on responsible and sustainable healthcare waste management, and two medical autoclave units were handed over to partner hospitals as part of the DoH-UNDP-GDF Covid-19 Healthcare Waste Management Response Project.

In the project's culmination activity in Caloocan City, graduates of the healthcare waste training program received their course completion certificates presented by Department of Health (DoH) Assistant Secretary Dr. Gloria Balboa, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Philippines Resident Representative Dr. Selva Ramachandran, and Chinese Embassy in the Philippines Minister Councilor Yang Guoliang.