Last Updated on December 14, 2021 by The Health Master
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in the National Capital Region (NCR) and adjoining areas has allowed Hindustan Syringes and Medical Devices (HMD) to restart production.
HMD, which is providing syringes to the nation and the world for the C-19 vaccination programme, was asked to shut down its factories ‘voluntarily’ as part of a pollution-control drive undertaken by authorities in the National Capital Region (NCR) on Friday, December 10th, 2021.
HMD immediately informed the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Commission for Air Quality Management, NCR & AA and other administrative ministries that HMD is manufacturing C-19 critical medical devices, i.e. syringes for C- 19 vaccination, and has been running their operations with a PNG of 4.3 megawatts since 2011.
He requested the Member Secretary of CAQM to withdraw the order or make an exception looking at the critical nature of running their operation for the C-19 vaccination in India as well as globally to avoid any big National healthcare crisis as over 2/3 of India depends up on HMD’s Syringes for general healthcare.
Other countries are also counting on India to support global immunization/vaccination projects, mainly for children.
In a letter to the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB), the CAQM said HMD units are allowed to resume their operations based on certain undertakings.
“Today (Monday) we start full operations on getting the formal letter. We are thankful to CAQM (Commission for Air Quality Management) and HSPCB ( Haryana State Pollution Control Board ) for the partial reprieve for allowing us to run our plants and continue to serve the public with much needed DispoVan disposable syringes and Kojak AD syringes. We appreciate the quick decision and the rationalised approach, “said Nath.
“We have to exercise restraint now till hopefully another order as a full reprieve comes to allow the use of diesel gensets set, as permissible for hospitals and for formal coverage of C-19 Critical Medical Devices including Syringes, for uninterrupted operations in public utilities and essential goods and services under the Disaster Management Act,” he added.
Nath also hoped HMD would be allowed to use diesel gensets in very rare circumstances, which would ensure optimal plant capacity utilization so that there were no shortages.
He pointed out as cost of change overs and machine restarts in a highly automated process leads to not only higher wastages, rejections and downtimes that reduces capacity utilization of much needed Syringes but with that comes a higher risk of patient safety of some manufacturing defects that should usually be rejected going to the market.
“No one will want to run their plants on expensive diesel gensets even if they meet the emission norms with appropriate chimney heights,” Nath said.
According to him, the per unit cost of power from diesel gensets is Rs.24 while that of the grid power is Rs.9 and PNG is Rs.13.90.
Nath also hoped that the Haryana government improves its operational efficiency and cost effectiveness of delivery of power as is being done in Maharashtra, Gujarat and even Madhya Pradesh.
“Like power is made available to farmers on priority during sowing season so should regular uninterrupted high quality power be made available to Delhi NCR region from October to February when air quality falls so that the heavily industrialised zone need not run on backup captive power generation,” added Nath.
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