WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 [Automatic captions by Autotekst using OpenAI Whisper V3. May contain recognition errors.] 00:12.288 --> 00:14.893 She is worried about her health in the future. 00:20.999 --> 00:29.108 And welcome to Dagsrevyen. The heat waves are getting stronger, the rainfall is getting more intense, and the hurricanes are getting 00:29.128 --> 00:37.937 stronger. We have seen examples of this in the summer. In Siberia, USA and Canada, record-high heat waves have led to huge forest fires, and 00:37.977 --> 00:42.422 heavy rain and flood in Germany and Belgium took the lives of around 200 people. 00:49.757 --> 00:56.060 The health sector has twice as many emissions as air traffic. If the health sector had been a country, it would have been the world's fifth 00:56.080 --> 01:01.902 largest emissions producer. But who controls this country? Who takes responsibility when health services that are supposed to make us 01:01.922 --> 01:03.143 healthy, actually make us sick? 01:08.542 --> 01:15.408 If patient safety and assessment at your hospital was so bad that you believed in people's health, would you then be willing to change 01:15.468 --> 01:23.834 already today? The climate crisis is exactly that, a serious threat to people's health. There are simple measures to create a green health 01:23.874 --> 01:32.300 sector, while patient safety is taken into account and costs go down. Let's take a concrete example, plastic. Every year, Norwegian 01:32.320 --> 01:39.102 hospitals throw and burn 20,000 tons of plastic a year. That equals 100 football courts covered with one meter of plastic. We throw 1,300 tons 01:39.302 --> 01:47.264 of plastic gloves every year, and 400 tons of unused products. After Covid, the use of gloves increased by 20%, and many gloves users will see 01:47.304 --> 01:54.107 these gloves on the ground. The potential for plastic reduction is enormous. Many of these can be recalled. The easiest way to achieve this 01:54.127 --> 02:00.592 goal is to cut down the use of plastic. With a more conscious access to gloves and a learning policy that reduces the use of gloves by 30%, we 02:00.612 --> 02:10.020 save 400 tons of plastic. Change out disposable items with multiple products. Washable rags, warm jackets and dukes can save 100 tons of 02:10.040 --> 02:18.327 plastic a year and reduce costs quickly. Make demands to the suppliers. A lot of the packaging is double-packed and packed with plastic and 02:18.367 --> 02:24.372 paper, which makes it difficult to recycle. Requirements for paper-based packaging and a significant reduction in packaging use 02:24.632 --> 02:32.179 can save more than 110 tons. Passing through the routine can prevent unused products from being thrown away. Equipment that is brought in to 02:32.199 --> 02:39.863 the patients cannot be returned and a lot of unused products are thrown away. A reduction in 50% unused material saves about 200 tons of 02:39.903 --> 02:46.925 plastic. Change in the system level is striking. Patient safety is being taken into account. Costs are being reduced. Health workers are 02:46.965 --> 02:53.346 maintaining their jobs. And the health sector can become a global role model that protects humans and the planet in future generations. Maybe 02:53.386 --> 03:00.788 the fourth will mark as climate change and make us worthy of the fight for people's health. I take my responsibility. Show that you take yours. 03:01.328 --> 03:06.356 Take care of people's health and the future. There are many reasons to choose a green health sector. What's yours?