M'lore: Private Hospital Issued Notice for Disposing Bio-Medical Waste at Dumpying Yard
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (MM/MSP)
Mangalore, Jun 5: In a major development, Mangalore City Corporation health officer Dr Manjaiah Shetty has served a notice on city-based private hospital on Wednesday, June 4, for dumping the bio-medical wastes at the Pachanady dumping yard.
As per norms, hospitals are not supposed to dump the bio-medical wastes in the common dumping yards. A separate processing cum disposal unit for the bio-medical wastes being run by Ramky company has been opened for the use of all the hospitals. The hospitals need to shell out Rs 300 per kg for the disposal of bio-medical wastes. This method being costly, many of the hospitals in the city are not disposing off their bio-medical waste through this unit. Instead, most of the hospitals have been disposing their waste at Pachanady dumping yard. The contractors have been concealing the bio-medical waste by covering it with general garbage while transporting it to Pachanady dumping yard. The contractors were allegedly threatening the security personnel at Pachanady whenever the guards raised their voice against this malpractice, sources informed.
The contractors who have taken the responsibility of disposing the garbage in the city and the assistant health officer of the city corporation have connived in enabling these hospitals to break the rules, said Hanumanta Kamath, president of Nagarika Hitarakshana Samiti.
The Nagarika Hitarakshana Samiti had collected necessary evidences to prove the illegal nexus between the garbage disposal contractors and the erring hospitals. The Samiti later complained to the MCC commissioner Subbaiah. Subbaiah has taken the initiative to seek recourse to legal action against the accused. But the hospitals are using their clout and pulling strings to escape the clutches of law, the Samiti has alleged.