Lagos — The Lagos State government has invested N22 billion in recycling of waste materials, the Managing Director of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Ola Oresanya has disclosed.
The city has around 1,500 general practitioners but just 250 of them have been registered with the firm appointed to collect and dispose of the biomedical waste generated in the city.
There has been a 16 per cent increase in daily generation of bio-medical waste in 2012-13 as against a marginal increase of 0.33 per cent the year ago, Lok Sabha was informed today.
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Dr. Alankrita Mehra Vs. Union of India & Nine Ors. dated 12/03/2015 regarding government medical facilities and establishments not following biomedical waste rules in Madhya Pradesh.
IIHMR Dean Prof Ashok K Agarwal said the institute was willing to train government medical professionals and administrators in waste disposal management in the state
Chennai and Mumbai are the only big Indian cities with an effective system to manage biomedical waste, whereas Delhi and other north Indian state capitals have a poor record, a study has found.
