Ranchi, May 4: For all its efforts to gift five new incinerators to the state, the pollution control board is undoing the good work by sitting on hundreds of applications from hospitals and nursing homes, seeking permission to handle and dispose of medical waste on their own.
According to the Biomedical Waste Management Act 1998, every hospital, nursing home or any other medical entity has to o
MARGAO, Will the concerned authorities finally act in restoring the water bodies, including the Colva creek with the rampant water contamination coming under the scanner of High Court?
High Court directives to the Colva Panchayat and other authorities to file a reply on the action taken on the directions issued by the Goa State Pollution Control Board has been welcomed by the Colva Civic and Cons
The Punjab government has not yet taken steps to repair or replace the only incinerator installed at Holy Family Hospital which stopped functioning about two months back, forcing three government hospitals in the city to dispose of their infectious waste manually.
Sources told Dawn on Sunday that since the incinerator developed faults, its management did not lift waste from District Headquarter
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today disposed of a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking installation of a common unified bio medical waste facility for the city.
Ranchi, April 13: Biomedical waste upping the hazard quotient in the capital and elsewhere will soon be a thing of the past, courtesy Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB), which has decided to set up not one, but five new incinerators for quick disposal.
To be christened the Central Bio-waste Treatment Facility (CBWTF), the incinerator plants will come up in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanb
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today assured the resident welfare associations of Okhla that there would be no health hazard due to the waste-to-energy plant being built in the area because only domestic waste would be used to generate power.
This report estimates the usage of Mercury (Hg) containing thermometers and sphygmomanometer in urban (government and private) and rural healthcare (community Health Centre, Primary Health Centre and Sub-centre) settings in India taking into account the “Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS)” recommended usage of these products in heathcare facilities.
India has submitted the National Implementation Plan of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). MoEF will coordinate its implementation & the activities will spread over a period of 12 years from 2011-2022.
ERODE: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is planning to amend the rules to further tighten the norms on bio-medical waste management, said Dr R Sridhar, deputy director, hazardous system management division of the ministry.
Addressing at the workshop on bio medical waste management, jointly organised by TNPCB, Erode IMA, CPR Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC) and the Ministry a
