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 …
Though this town has emerged as a major destination for health services, it lacks infrastructure for scientific disposal of the bio-medical waste generated by the mushrooming hospitals and clinics. The hazardous waste is transported to Ludhiana for being destroyed. A cluster of government hospitals within the complex of the Civil …
Biomedical wastes are posing a great threat in Odisha. With the growing number of private hospitals and more of super speciality centres of cure, the issue of biomedical waste disposal is turning out to be a nightmare for environmentalists. Hospitals in the State together produce more than 50 tonnes of …
Eleven sites have been identified in Tamil Nadu for setting up common facilities in the private sector for handling waste, covering about 2,480 hospitals and 54,792 beds. They cumulatively generate about 16.5 tonnes of waste daily, according to Mr R. Ramachandran, Member-Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Pollution Control Board. Mr Ramachandran …
Mumbai To facilitate treatment and disposal of large amounts of biomedical waste generated in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is planning to set up a second bio medical waste treatment plant in Malad. The civic body currently treats 10 metric tonnes of biomedical waste per day generated by well …
IMPROPER disposal of medical wastes is a matter of grave concern for human health and environment. Medical waste may carry germs of different deadly diseases. In developing countries, medical waste management has not received much attention. It is usually disposed off randomly. Improper medical waste management is alarming in Bangladesh …
MUMBAI: From the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd link road, the bio-medical waste treatment plant of the municipal corporation looks like an innocuous small factory with its chimney spewing gentle, white fumes. But a surprise inspection of the plant abutting the Deonar dumping ground recently by Dr Sandip Rane of the high court-appointed committee …
City-based voluntary organisation Cool Earth has made a request to the Oil India Ltd authorities to develop the patch of the city land measuring around 20 km in length and about 20 metres in width, in which OIL pipeline has been laid. It has further pleaded for bringing this land …
KOCHI: There are many instances of hospitals turning out to be hatcheries of disease. But Kochiites can heave a sigh of relief as some hospitals in the city and suburbs will soon be infectionfree zones. Twenty hospitals, which include 12 private hospitals and eight government hospitals, have been certified as
CUTTACK: Open and uninhibited collection of hazardous medical waste material from the disposal unit of the SCB Medical College and Hospital among all other concerns has exposed the rot seeping through the premier health institution of the State. Though among the first hospitals of Orissa to have implemented the Biomedical …
CUTTACK: In the very precincts of the biomedical waste disposal and treatment facility of the SCB Medical College and Hospital, the premier medical institution of the State, a disaster is in the making. It is 5.30 in the evening. The scene at the incinerator site near the post-mortem unit of …
After its campaign against the illegal mine owners recently, the Goa State Pollution Control Board turned its ire towards the hospitals for absence of proper equipment to treat medical waste. The GSPCB has issued notices to around 125 medical facilities including top government hospitals for absence of proper equipment to …
The state pollution control board has pulled up 32 nursing homes in Kolkata, Howrah, North 24-Parganas and South 24-Parganas for flouting pollution norms. Recently, some scientists of the WBPCB visited various nursing homes in and around the city and found that many nursing homes were being run without proper bio-medical …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to a veterinary dispensary at Pirna, a health officer of Cortalim Primary Health Centre and Indus Medical Centre, Porvorim, for failing to dispose bio-medical waste as per the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998. GSPCB Chairman Simon de …
WASTE is a major problem for any city, and a city without a proper solid waste management system is a hazard to public health. Islamabad is one such city. The municipal dumping site in H-10 sector is not the only place that stinks in Islamabad. In every residential sub-sector in …
Pune It will be a year in September since a blast at the bio-medical waste treatment facility at Kailash crematorium near Naidu Hospital killed seven of its employees. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) closed down the facility and till date the authorities have been unable to find an alternative …
The lackadaisical handling of biomedical waste poses serious hazards to citizens and the medical profession, says FREDDY DIAS The failure on the part of the government as well as private hospitals, clinics and nursing homes to dispose off biomedical waste in a safe manner is posing a major health hazard …
MUMBAI: At a time when Chembur residents are seeking the closure of the Deonar dumping ground for emitting toxic gases, a bio-medical waste treatment plant set up by the BMC at the ground's entrance is adding to their woes. The incinerator, which burns 10 metric tonnes of bio-medical waste, is …
