Staff members of the Bellevue Hospital in Kingston, and some residents of Manley Meadows, are concerned that the Ministry of Health has plans to build a medical waste management plant at the facility, noting that there was no guarantee that the plant would be properly maintained.

As a result of this, some staff members and residents yesterday staged what they called a public education campaign at the front of the hospital, calling for the plans to be shelved.

"We do not want them (the Ministry of Health) to establish it at, or in the vicinity of Bellevue Hospital because if there is a spill, there is no guarantee that the ministry would be able to contain the bacteria (that would come from the plant)," said Faye Robinson-Tee, president of the Bellevue Hospital Action Committee.