Mumbai To facilitate treatment and disposal of large amounts of biomedical waste generated in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is planning to set up a second bio medical waste treatment plant in Malad.
IMPROPER disposal of medical wastes is a matter of grave concern for human health and environment. Medical waste may carry germs of different deadly diseases. In developing countries, medical waste management has not received much attention. It is usually disposed off randomly. Improper medical waste management is alarming in Bangladesh and poses a serious threat to public health.
MUMBAI: From the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd link road, the bio-medical waste treatment plant of the municipal corporation looks like an innocuous small factory with its chimney spewing gentle, white fumes.
City-based voluntary organisation Cool Earth has made a request to the Oil India Ltd authorities to develop the patch of the city land measuring around 20 km in length and about 20 metres in width, in which OIL pipeline has been laid. It has further pleaded for bringing this land under Factories Act of 1948 so that the right to use status can be granted to it.
KOCHI: There are many instances of hospitals turning out to be hatcheries of disease. But Kochiites can heave a sigh of relief as some hospitals in the city and suburbs will soon be infectionfree zones.
CUTTACK: Open and uninhibited collection of hazardous medical waste material from the disposal unit of the SCB Medical College and Hospital among all other concerns has exposed the rot seeping through the premier health institution of the State.
CUTTACK: In the very precincts of the biomedical waste disposal and treatment facility of the SCB Medical College and Hospital, the premier medical institution of the State, a disaster is in the making.
It is 5.30 in the evening. The scene at the incinerator site near the post-mortem unit of the hospital presents a disturbing picture.
After its campaign against the illegal mine owners recently, the Goa State Pollution Control Board turned its ire towards the hospitals for absence of proper equipment to treat medical waste.
The GSPCB has issued notices to around 125 medical facilities including top government hospitals for absence of proper equipment to treat medical waste.
The state pollution control board has pulled up 32 nursing homes in Kolkata, Howrah, North 24-Parganas and South 24-Parganas for flouting pollution norms.
