A study was conducted to evaluate the current status of hospital waste management in Satna city. Through this investigation, it has been quite evident that a satisfactory hospital waste management system in government hospitals and private clinic is severely lacking. The waste is generally dumped in a public place, such as the hospital surroundings, roadside or city corporation dustbin.
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in association with the district administration and the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) will implement a unique SAFE I- Project, said District Collector M Beena at a press conference here on Friday.
The novel project aims at bringing down hospital-borne infections by ensuring safe injection and thereby decreasing iatrogenic diseases.
Rajahmundry, Dec. 17: Unscientific recycling of used plastic saline bottles has become rampant as the health authorities fail to keep a tab on their pilferage from hospitals to scrap shops in East Godavari.
The 14 Bangalore hospitals which were ordered to close down by the Lok Adalat have filed an impleading application, seeking time to establish liquid bio-medical waste treatment plants in their premises.
The five government hospitals coming under Bangalore Medical College are likely to start disinfection of liquid bio- medical waste at the source as done in private hospitals, according to an official in Bangalore Medical College Research Institute.
This paper reflects the existing management systems practiced in various areas of Nepal in managing solid waste and contains initiatives of municipalities; national and local NGOs/CBOs; public and private entities.
MARGAO, NOV 17
Come Tuesday and the Margao Municipal Council will not just experiment for the first time treating waste and garbage through composting units, but will set in motion a process with the help of nursing homes and clinics to tackle growing bio-medical waste.
Speakers at a discussion in Rajshahi yesterday underlined the need for hygienic and eco-friendly management of medical waste for the sake of making the environment free from pollution.
