Last Updated on March 3, 2023 by The Health Master
BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) fined a private health facility in the city Rs 1 lakh for littering hazardous biomedical waste and warned it not to repeat it.
The hospitals are indifferent to the disposal of hazardous biomedical waste, according to BMC commissioner Vijay Kulange. “They (hospitals) are doing it on purpose to save money.”
They have dedicated agencies to lift bio-medical waste yet they are flouting the norms. It is a sorry state of affairs by such responsible institutions. We are adopting zero tolerance policy towards all violations of sanitation,” he said.
According to him, BMC wrote to Khurda, the chief district medical officer (CDMO), requesting to file a complaint against the hospital.
According to the clinical establishment rule, the CDMO is authorized to take action, Kulange continued.
The biomedical waste (management and handling) rules 2011, said biomedical wastes such as cotton, needles, and body parts and other wastes generated from the hospitals should be dumped in separate containers at the primary levels (in the patient wards). Then, it should be disposed in the incinerator.
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If the medical waste are not segregated (different kinds of waste kept in different containers for disposal), and not disposed properly, it is likely to generate toxic chemicals, which can pollute the environment.
The hospital’s director declared, “It was not medical waste. The waste basically contained waste papers and wrappers of medicines. They were supposed to be lifted by the BMC private agency, but it hasn’t done so in the last ten days. Our biomedical waste is lifted by another agency.”
The burning of waste was previously prohibited by the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) due to the production of toxic chemicals like furan and dioxin as well as carcinogenic substances that cause cancer.
Persistent organic pollutants (POP) will be released if the wastes are not separated or are dispersed, according to an OSPCB scientist.
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