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‘16 hospitals in Mumbai found flouting bio-medical waste disposal norms'
The hospitals include four government hospitals, seven of the BMC and five private hospitals...EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AS MANY as 16 hospitals in Mumbai have been found to be flouting the norms for disposal of biomedical waste. These include four government hospitals, seven of the BMC and five private hospitals.
Minister of State for Urban Development Rajesh Tope told this in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. He was replying to a question by Dattaji Nalawade (Shiv Sena) and others on the issue. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) acts against hospitals flouting norms under the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998. The Bombay High Court had formed a committee to look into the matter after several public interest litigations. The committee visited 40 hospitals, Tope said, adding during the inspection 16 hospitals were found violating norms. Two of them - Podar Hospital and Bai Sakharbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital at Parel - had been issued notices, asking them why the hospitals not be shut down under the Environment Protection Act (EPA). The other 14 had also been issued notices questioning why cases not be filed against them for noncompliance of the norms. The hospitals, he said were given six weeks to ensure compliance, and the court committee would visit the hospitals again to verify it. In case the norms were not complied with, cases would be lodged (against the concerned hospitals). |
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