THE TIMES OF INDIA, Bhopal, TNN | Jul 25, 2015, 03.40 AM IST
BHOPAL: Several loopholes and noncompliance of biomedical waste (BMW) rules were found at People’s Hospital in Bhanpur after National Green Tribunal (NGT) appointed committee on BMW conducted inspection on Friday.
NGT had asked the committee to inspect compliance of bio-medical waste rules in hospitals and healthcare facilities in the capital and prepare a report on a monthly basis. Till now, the committee has inspected more than a dozen hospitals.
Committee members include advocates state’s standing counsel at NGT Sachin K Verma, MP pollution control board’s counsel Parul Bhadoria, Dharmveer Sharma and Ayush Dev Bajpai. Besides, Dr Majid Qureshi, junior scientist from MPPCB, is also part of the committee.
One of the members said that there was no segregation of BMW waste at source and lab and operation theatre discharge was going into the sewage treatment plant (STP) without treatment.
Committee members highlighted that incinerator ash was also only collected in yellow bags and not sent to Pithampur waste facility for scientific disposal as per BMW rules. Hospital authorities have been told to provide complete registers and log books to NGT appointed committee by Saturday.
Recently, MPPCB brought eight hospitals under scanner, including AIIMS, Hamidia and Sultania, in its report tabled NGT for not complying with bio-medical waste rules in washing linen.