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Disposal of bio-medical waste : GMCH fails to submit reports to NGT


10/12/2016
Nitesh Sangral

Early Times Report 


Jammu, Oct 12: The lackadaisical approach of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Jammu can be gauged from fact that despite reminders from National Green Tribunal (NGT), the administration is yet to submit reports about mechanism for disposal of bio-medical waste. Pertinently, GMC &H and its associated Hospitals viz. Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) Hospital, Chest and Disease (CD) Hospital and Super Specialty (SS) Hospital Jammu on an average generate around 9 to 10 tonnes of bio-medical waste in a month which has the potential to create environmental catastrophe. Sources told Early Times that keeping in view serious violation of rules and regulations and non-seriousness attitude of GMC&H administration, the NGT had served notices to GMCH and its associated hospitals for their failure to formulate a proper mechanism to dispose of the bio-medical waste. "NGT wanted reports before August 1 after their team visited GMCH and its associated hospitals on June 26, sources said. They said the team had warned the hospital administration that if it failed to submit reports, a strict action would be taken in this regard. Sources further said that Medical Council of India (MCI) had also pulled up the hospital administration for failing to dispose of bio-medical waste properly. Interestingly, incinerators at the SMGS Hospital and CD Hospital Jammu are lying unused as administration failed to get approval from State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) despite spending Rs 54.21 lakhs on them, sources stated. However, officials claimed that GMC&H had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a private firm for disposal of bio-medical waste.

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