Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
IIHMR Dean Prof Ashok K Agarwal said the institute was willing to train government medical professionals and administrators in waste disposal management in the state Delhi-based International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) has offered to partner with the Uttar Pradesh government in waste disposal management for government hospitals. IIHMR …
Chennai and Mumbai are the only big Indian cities with an effective system to manage biomedical waste, whereas Delhi and other north Indian state capitals have a poor record, a study has found. The survey by the International Clinical Epidemiology Network published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, covered …
TWO garbage incineration plants are being allowed to operate illegally by the government in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, it is alleged, forcing residents to move and sickening many of those left behind. The plants, in the city’s Guodingshan of Hanyang districts, were built in 2012 to burn …
The Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed an order of a single judge Bench for immediate closure of a bio-medical waste treatment plant in Sukhdev Vihar in South Delhi, which is allegedly affecting the health of the local residents. The stay will be applicable till February 25. A Division Bench …
Adilabad: ‘Segregate before you throw waste’, ‘Waste can be hazardous’ and ‘Handle with care’ are the slogans popularised by various organisations with regard to bio-medical wastage management. This helps in curtailing environment pollution and spread of diseases among people due to bio-medical waste. However, no system is in place for …
99 Cents Only Stores has agreed to pay more than $2 million to settle accusations that its operations improperly stored, handled and disposed of hazardous and pharmaceutical waste. An investigation found that the retailer's 251 stores and distribution centers in California were allegedly tossing hazardous materials into company trash bins …
Safeway, Vons stores dumped medicines and batteries in landfills, prosecutors allege Safeway Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle allegations that its grocery stores improperly disposed of hazardous waste and customers' medical information in California. The agreement comes after an investigation found that the Pleasanton company was …
Two private medical colleges in the Union territory of Puducherry have been dumping biomedical waste into water bodies, polluting the environment and exposing residents to health hazards, an environmental organisastion has alleged. Huge piles of solid waste materials, including biomedical waste, were being dumped into the Malparikkalpet Tank, near Manapet …
City private hospitals are blatantly flouting hazardous biomedical waste disposal norms. A joint inspection by the officials of the UP Pollution Control Board and the health department has revealed that 48 (80%) of the 60 private hospitals which have been surveyed so far are not following the bio-medical waste disposal …
Thane: With increasing number of health care centres in the city, the amount of Bio-Medical Waste generated by them has also seen an increase. Figures availed from the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) reflect that there has been a 221 per cent rise in the number of firms who have registered …
Altogether 115 medical units, including hospitals, nursing homes, pathology labs and orthopaedic and maternity clinics of the city are in the dock for not sending their bio waste for disposal to the Naini based Bio-Waste Disposal Management Unit. After the officials of the unit wrote a letter to the CMO …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Sustainability and Human Resources Vs The State of Madhya Pradesh dated 17/11/2014 regarding non compliance by the Madhya Pradesh Medical & Health Department and hospitals pathological laboratories etc. in the city of Bhopal with regard to …
An outbreak of Ebola in a densely-populated country like India can create a difficult situation as it poses a serious threat, experts said at a conclave organised here to discuss various infections. “India being a densely-populated country and biomedical waste management being very poor in most Indian hospitals, chances of …
AHMEDABAD: With the burgeoning amount of medical waste generated from four municipal hospitals, two referral hospitals and 64 urban health centres, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has now given the work of treating the medical waste to a private waste disposal company. Every day these medical centres generate close to …
Handling medical waste generated by an Ebola patient proved to be one of the contingencies that U.S. hospitals were unprepared for, a top U.S. health official said on Saturday, adding that it "took longer than we would have wished" to fix the problem. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and …
Panaji: A team from the Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) on Thursday inspected the premises of Goa medical college and hospital (GMC) at Bambolim, to check whether bio-medical waste was treated properly and found that it was done as per the prescribed procedures. GSPCB had received a complaint alleging …
PANJIM: The Goa State Pollution Control board is likely to conduct an inspection of the GMC, Bambolim Wednesday after reports surfaced that its solid waste management plant had broken down, a charge denied by GMC officials. Chairman Jose Manuel Noronha said that team would be sent for inspection to check …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Monday issued a closure notice to well-known hospital in Mapusa, for causing water pollution in the vicinity. The board has received repeated complaints from residents of Peddem, Mapusa, alleging that the hospital discharges sullage in the open drain and burns medical waste …
Throwing all norms to the winds, the bio–medical waste in the Sivasagar Civil Hospital located at Joysagar is being disposed off in an unhygienic manner just a few metres away from the residential area of Sapun Nagar, posing serious health hazards to the residents. The hospital authorities are throwing used …
Rising instances of trucks from other States discarding waste along border districts Illegal dumping of construction debris and garbage along the border-lying districts by trucks from the adjoining States that has been for years has acquired a dangerous dimension now with the dumping of biomedical waste along with them and …
