60 healthcare facilities fail to incinerate hazardous waste
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21/11/2008
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Daily Times (Pakistan)
Around 60 healthcare facilities are not incinerating their hazardous waste, while around 132 healthcare centres are using the incineration facilities for hazardous waste available at the Shalimar Hospital Waste Management Company (SHWMC), officials at the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and the SHWMC said on Thursday.
According to government statistics, there are three incinerators in the city; one is for private healthcare facilities, one for government hospitals while the third is currently out of order.
Around 15 government hospitals incinerate their infectious waste at the Children