The Government of India, has notified Biomedical Waste (Management and handing) Rules, 1998 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and is applicable to all persons who generate, collect, receive, store, transport, treat, dispose, or handle biomedical waste in any form.
The burning desire of Tiruchirapalli residents to safely get rid of mountains of hospital waste has now been fulfilled. The School of Energy Studies of the local Bharathidasan University has come up
DISPOSING low-level radioactive waste from hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers and electric utilities will become more difficult and expensive in the US, with the collapse of a waste-disposal
It is estimated that Indian health care industry is growing at a rate of 12% per annum. Health care institutions have a very high potential for disease transmission through its waste, in this episode, we focus on the dangers of how toxic biomedical waste is and how unaware people are about its harmful effects. We speak about Swachh Bharat, cleanliness practices that need to be urgently brought to medical institutions to prevent them from becoming a source of disease and how the staff must be trained on handling biomedical waste in keeping with set guidelines.
At Right to be Heard Townhall show, Environmental minister Jayathi Natarajan said emergency action needs to be taken to clean up the Yamuna flowing near Delhi.
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has issued notices to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital and Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Hospital after it found several deficiencies in their waste management system.
