Several hospitals in the city are not heeding to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) norms of treatment and disposal of bio-medical waste.
Over 50% of the hospitals sell off their bio-medical waste such as worn out disposable syringes, saline bottles, suction pipes used for blood transfusion and glucose, scissors and urine bags to scrap dealers.
VELLORE: Pennathur town panchayat councillor A.M. Venkatesan complained to the Tamil Nadu Assembly Petitions Committee, which visited the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital (GVMCH) in Adukkamparai on Tuesday, that liquid effluents discharged by the hospital were let into an irrigation tank in Sabdalipuram leading to contamination of groundwater in the village.
KOLKATA, 2 SEPT: The state pollution control board has lodged an FIR against a person who operated an illegal biomedical waste dump yard in Chowbaga, South 24 Parganas and used to sell the waste from several big and reputed private hospitals and nursing homes of the city as plastic scrap to another trader.
The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is currently running an internal audit ag
THE Madras HC has restrained the SRM University from letting out waste water, soaked sewer age, medical waste and other untreated biomedical w a s t e f ro m t h ei r premises to the sur rounding places and housing colo nies.
CUTTACK: With improper biomedical waste handling and disposal at the hospitals in the City continuing to raise concerns despite the directions of the Orissa High Court, the district administration today announced setting up of a Special Task Force to assess the health institutions and recommend action against the violators.
Ahmedabad: Business of illegal disposal of bio-medical waste has started again. Over 150 kg bio-medical waste containing needles, syringes, blood bags, vials and other material was seized from a godown in Ghatlodia on Tuesday. The material was neatly packed in plastic bags. This proves that a large amount of medical waste is still not being incinerated in the city.
CHENNAI: The common biomedical waste facility functioning at Thenmelpakkam in Kancheepuram district is all set for an upgrade, with the Global Environment Fund, an international funding body under the United Nations Development Programme, agreeing to provide $2,58,000 for the project.
In a bid to have better outcome in biomedical waste management through upgraded technology, the Directorate Health Services (DHS) has gone into overdrive to have new biomedical waste management (BMW) facilities, one at Okhla and other at Nilothi in outer Delhi.
