Surat: Following a TOI expose on how quacks flourished fearlessly in the city, Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Sunday shot off notices to 952 organisations demanding details of their infrastructure and biomedical waste disposal mechanisms.
Ahmedabad: With no deaths reported from hepatitis-hit Sabarakantha district on Sunday, the toll stood at 56, while 11 new cases were admitted from Modasa, Idar and Meghraj taluks
The Gujarat health department is investigating the role of about seven companies which could be involved in the recycling of the biomedical waste, health department officials said on Sunday.
Ahmedabad: This is why infected syringes find their way into the recycling market putting countless lives at risk. A 15-member committee consisting of state health and pollution control board officials which was to monitor that every medical waste produced anywhere in Gujarat is disposed off according to norms has not met for the last three years.
Ahmedabad : The proprietors of death factories need not worry much even if images of contaminated syringes, needles and other
bio-medical waste stored for recycling scared you to death. Even if the accused are found guilty, under IPC sections 269 and 278, they will be punished for six months of prison with a measly Rs 500 as fine.
MUMBAI: Cracking the whip on errant medical establishments, the Bombay high court on Thursday restrained the state from granting permission to new hospitals, nursing homes, clinics or pathological laboratories unless they have in place the mechanism to dispose of bio-medical waste.
BANKURA, Feb. 25: A Bankura-based NGO has been awarded the 2008 Meghnad Puraskar for popularising science among the rural population in south Bengal. The prestigious award will be handed to My Dear Trees and Wilds at the inaugural session of the State Science and Technology Congress, organised at Burdwan University complex this week.
MUMBAI: The 43 deaths in Modasa town of Gujarat's Sabarkantha district over the last fortnight due to hepatitis B underlines how widespread this viral infection really is.
"It is one of the biggest public health challenges,'' said gastroenterologist Dr D N Amarapurkar of Bombay Hospital.
