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 …
Rio De Janeiro: Brazilians are kicking up a stink over 1,200 tonnes of British garbage, including toilet seats, dirty nappies and used syringes, that are rotting at two southern ports after arriving in container ships. The trash, which arrived in Brazil earlier this year, was destined for Brazilian companies that …
Acute shortage of technical staff in the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) prevents it from closely monitoring hospitals in the City to check if they adhere to different environmental norms, according to a top official. Speaking to newspersons on the sidelines of a refresher programme
Concrete policy to enforce ban alongwith providing people with alternatives is the only way out. Drive against the use of polythene bags has become a costly affair for attendants of patients admitted in Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu Attendants carrying polythene bags which contain food items, water bottles and other …
Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) has decided to acquire an incinerator at an estimate cost of Rs 30-40 lakh to dispose medical waste from hospitals in the port town. Unlike other cities, MMC is blessed with a full-fledged garbage treatment plant at Headland Sada and with the purchase of incinerator it …
The stretch past the mortuary of Thimphu referral hospital, where all medical waste is dumped, is a difficult place to take a walk by. It smells awful. Dead rats. Placentas. Used needles. Bloody bandages. All rotting. There are also pharmaceuticals, chemicals, medical devices and radioactive material. When it comes to …
AHMEDABAD: Exactly three months ago, Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) had promised people about an ambitious scheme of launching an SMS garbage collection scheme. It was to be a unique method to deal with collection of biomedical waste from hospitals in the wake of hepatitis B outbreak. Today that very …
The Himachal Pradesh Government has notified the creation and establishment of a new Directorate of Health Safety and Regulations which would function independently under the Department of Health and Family Welfare. The new Directorate, which would mainly be a regulatory body to observe the safety norms, shall deal with subjects …
More importance should be given by hospitals HEALTH CARE: S.S. Vasan, visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford, making a presentation in the city on Wednesday. MADURAI: Proper disposal of biomedical waste is mandatory for hospitals/ clinical laboratories and the Health Department will not allow any lacunae in that aspect, S. …
The Goa Medical College (GMC) & Hospital at Bambolim is still grappling with the problem of biomedical waste and treatment even as it has made some improvements in the existing treatment facilities following a notice from the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB). Two Board officials, who inspected the hospital …
Dumping of clinical and pathological wastes by most of the private clinics and diagnostic centres is causing environmental pollution in Khulna. According to sources in the civil surgeon
Mumbai: Bio-medical waste (BMW) weighing 4,575 metric tonnes was disposed of in an open dumping ground at Deonar along with municipal solid waste instead of landfills between 2003 and 2008, thus posing health hazards for residents in and around the area. However, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has not …
The Karnaphuli River, considered as the lifeline to business activities for both the hill people and the flatlanders in the country's far east region, is dying due to mindless encroachment, dumping of industrial and clinical wastes, and lack of maintenance. Encroachment of the river banks, unabated dumping of industrial, clinical …
The Lok Adalat, which took the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) officials to task for failing to initiate action against the nine government hospitals that failed to initiate measures to establish effluent treatment plant (ETP) to treat bio-medical waste, has warned of action if they fail to do so …
The discharge of heavily contaminated domestic and industrial waste into Phuleli Canal in Hyderabad continues unabatedly and no relevant authority has taken notice of the grave threat this situation poses. A large portion of the province, particularly the lower Sindh, has brackish and saline underground water due to the influence …
MUMBAI: In a bid to ensure that all healthcare units comply with the rules related to disposal of bio-medical waste, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has initiated action against 230 erring establishments. Of these, 100 have been served with closure notices, while the rest have been asked to comply …
MusavirrWani MM ISMANAGEM M ENT of biomed M ical wastes in and around the hospitals in Kashmir valley continues to add to the pollution levels thereby creating problems for both the patients in the hospitals and people at large. Officials at the helm of administration in these hospitals say that …
Pune, April 27 The Union Health Ministry has mandated April 30 as the date on which the public health system will switch over from conventional disposable syringes to auto disable (AD) ones, which become dysfunctional after a single use. With the deadline only a few days away, and several State …
Ahmedabad : They cost just 50 paise more than normal syringes. But, not using them can prove very costly! We're talking about auto disposable (AD) syringes that can't be reused. The outbreak of hepatitis-B in Modasa, that claimed more than 60 lives, on account of reuse of disposable syringes shocked …
Pune From Satara and Pimpri-Chinchwad to Taloja near Thane, at least 1,200 kg of bio-medical waste from Pune is transported every day for over 140 km for disposal. Ever since the disposal facility at Kailash crematorium in the city was shut down following a blast at the site, Pune
