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A year after ban, 60 city hospitals are mercury-free [1]

A year after the Delhi government issued a stricture to ban the use of mercury-based instruments in hospitals, as much as 90 kg of the liquid metal has been sold by over 60 hospitals.

Publication Date: 
08/08/2011
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Mercury [3], Hazardous Waste [4], Hospital Waste [5], Pollution Control [6]
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