The Health Care Without Harm team for Latin America and the Caribbean visited Clinaltec in Ibagué to learn firsthand about its water management in a region marked by high temperatures and growing shortages of drinking water.
The visit took place on July 27, 2026, and was led by technical specialist Claudia Paz. The tour focused on the institution's water infrastructure, an aspect that in hospital operations is usually left out of public conversation but determines a large part of its environmental footprint.
The clinic's water infrastructure
The three wastewater treatment plants operate with capacities of 0.5 and 2.5 liters per second.
Why water matters in a hospital
A high-complexity institution consumes water intensively and continuously: sterilization, laboratory, hemodialysis, laundry, air conditioning. In a department where the availability of the resource is increasingly tight, treating and reusing it ceases to be an optional best practice and becomes an operational requirement.
Clinaltec is a member institution of the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network, an international community of health sector organizations committed to reducing their environmental impact. These technical tours are the mechanism by which the network shares practices among its members.
The event in the media
The visit was documented by the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network itself.
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This article was written by Clinaltec S.A.S. using its own information. The links lead to the original publications of each media outlet.
