All houses to be brought under waste management network

The first of the source-level waste processing schemes, declared in the annual budget of the State for 2012-13, will come up in Pala municipality. Speaking at the meeting called to discuss the issue at Pala on Tusday, Finance Minister K.M. Mani said all the houses within the municipal area would be brought under the waste management network within two months.

After reports surfaced that bio-medical waste of Masina Hospital was being dumped outside its own premises, flouting disposal norms and precautions, the BMC on Friday, in a face-saving tactic, picked up the waste and dumped it in the lane across the hospital. Ironically, adjacent to the dumped waste stands another hospital, albeit a private one.

The spot where Masina Hospital had dumped its bio-medical waste was quite clean on Friday afternoon. However, shopkeepers across the hospital said that the civic garbage van had come in the morning to collect the waste,

Byculla residents have been forced to live in unhygienic conditions with the stench of adult diapers, bloodied cotton swabs, gauges, syringes, needles, used intravenous tubes and an endless list of

Silchar: Pollution Control Board, Assam had instructed Vivekananda Speciality Hospital and Research Centre at Chitta Ranjan Avenue, here to stop its all activities immediately as the Centre had vio

Proposal to include medical college in Central scheme

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the State government would spare no efforts in tackling the issue of waste disposal at the Kottayam Medical College hospital. He was speaking on Sunday while launching the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the MCH and inaugurating the Golden Jubilee complex sponsored by the college alumni association.

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan high court has asked the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) to submit its scheme for keeping the city clean. The directions were given to JMC CEO Lok Nath Soni who appeared before the court during the hearing of a petition filed on the issue on Monday. Soni has been directed to reappear before the court with the scheme details on Tuesday.

The East Singhbhum district administration has stepped in to resolve the stand-off over disposal of biomedical waste by nursing homes and private hospitals after a city-based human rights outfit to

Although Gurgaon is fast emerging as a hub for healthcare services, it is gaining notoriety over issues relating to disposal of medical waste.

The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has directed 97 healthcare establishments with over 100-beds capacity to submit bank guarantee within a week, assuring that they would conform to Biomedic

Following complaints of improper disposal of bio-medical waste using non-scientific means, the Haldwani Municipal Corporation (HMC) has issued notices to a number of hospitals.