Dear Editor,
Sharps is a term for devices (used to manage medical conditions of people or pets) with sharp points or edges that can puncture or cut skin.
Are you:
- – carrying Epipens?
- – one of 8.4 million Americans who rely on insulin to survive?
- – wearing a glucose monitoring sensor?
- – self-injecting weight loss or other medication?
If “Yes,” you are using lancets/fingersticks, needles, syringes, and/or self-injected pen devices. These are called sharps.
Wonder where and how to SAFELY dispose of sharps (considered medical waste) in Iowa County, Wisconsin?
Dodgeville Hometown Pharmacy – Buy an FDA-cleared sharps disposal container there (price = cost of disposal) and return when at FULL line Upland Hills Health HOSPITAL (not clinics)
– Provides FDA-cleared sharps disposal containers and will exchange when at FULL line
A very LIMITED number of businesses have FDA-cleared sharps disposal containers in their public restrooms.
PLEASE dispose of sharps/medical waste SAFELY.
Eileen Z. Fitzsimons Town of Dodgeville, WI