HACKENSACK, N.J., Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy announced it has deployed a SteriMed Junior System for medical evaluations by New Jersey-based M.C.M. Environmental Technologies Inc.
M.C.M. Environmental Technologies is a subsidiary of Caprius Inc. that is an on-site infectious medical waste disposal equipment provider.
Navy officials say the company's SteriMed Junior System has been deployed on an Expeditionary Strike Group vessel aboard an LHD Class flagship. LHDs are designed to receive casualties from helicopter and waterborne crafts and function as primary treatment during amphibious operations. As a result, they have the largest medical capability of any amphibious ship currently in use with emergency operating rooms, X-ray facilities and an intensive care ward, among other facilities aboard.
The Navy ranked the SteriMed System among the highest to meet medical waste processing needs as stated in the Navy’s solicitation for bid. During a yearlong evaluation program MCM has worked with the Navy to modify the commercial version of SteriMed Junior for shipboard deployment.
“The ability to dispose of infectious medical waste safely and efficiently is of large importance to a shipboard hospital and it was gratifying to work side by side with the top scientists and engineers within the Naval Sea Systems Command, the Navy’s center of excellence for ships and ship systems, to implement a viable medical waste management solution for the shipboard environment," said Dwight Morgan, president and chief executive officer of Caprius, in a statement.
"We are obviously hopeful that the evaluation of our system goes well given the large quantity of Naval and commercial cruise line ships which could ultimately benefit from our solution for on-ship medical waste treatment and destruction.”
