The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has directed 97 healthcare establishments with over 100-beds capacity to submit bank guarantee within a week, assuring that they would conform to Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules. Located in Hyderabad, Warangal, Ranga Reddy and Karimnagar districts, these hospitals were found violating rules.

Faced with increasing maintenance costs and stringent pollution control norms, military hospitals located in peace stations may outsource the disposal of toxic bio-medical waste to local civilian organisations engaged in such activity.

Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued 133 notices to hospitals and pathological laboratories including Government-run hospitals and health centres for submission of Action Plan on compliance of Biomedical Waste Rules even as the State Government today asked the hospital managements to immediately decide on short-term measures to tackle bio-medical waste.