Delhi's hospitals: waist-deep in refuse

Delhi"s hospitals: waist-deep in refuse
Hospital	Wastes managed by	Segregation	Incinerator	Amount of wastes picked up by ragpickers	Pilferaging by hospital staff	Non incinerrated wastes (total)
Mehrauli TB	Hospital staff	No	Absent	60 per cent infected	None	100 per cent/ sputum
Guru Teg Bahadur	Hospital staff	No	Present	10 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	40 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	50 per cent/ gloves, blood vials, bandages
Ram Manohar Lohia	Hospital staff	No	Present	10 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	30 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	40 per cent/ syringes, gloves, bottles
Safdarjung	Hospital staff	Yes	Present	No ragpickers	60 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	60 per cent/ bottles
All India Institute of Medical Sciences	Hospital staff	Yes	Present	No ragpickers	40 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	40 per cent/ bottles,
Jai Prakash Narayan	Hospital staff	No	Present	20 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	38 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	58 per cent/ bottles, blood vials, syringes, bandages
G B Pant	Hospital staff	No	Present	30 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	20 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	50 per cent/ dirty linen, bottles, bandages, syringes, gloves
Hindu Rao	Hospital	No	Absent	30 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	20 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	50 per cent/ dirty linen, bottles, bandages, syringes, gloves
Kalavati Saran	Hospital staff	No	Absent	32 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	28 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	60 per cent/ linen, bottles, gloves
Sucheta Kriplani	Hospital staff	No	Absent	30 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	25 per cent of saleable biomedical wastes	55 per cent/ linen, syringes
Source: Hospital Waste: a Dangerous Infusion, a vatavaran report Iqbal Malik