Private hospitals and clinics in Federal capital daily generate hazardous hospital waste, which is not properly disposed of, but dumped in the city causing serious health problems.

Medical experts say that 20 to 25 percent of the total hospital wastes are considered extremely hazardous to human health and is a potential source of fatal diseases such as hepatitis.

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has ordered the Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and the Director of Medical and Rural Health Services, Chennai, to enquire into and send a report about the alleged dumping of bio waste on the main road at Tiruvallur.

In his order on a complaint, SHRC Acting Chairperson K. Baskaran stated that the report should be filed within four weeks. The complainant, K. Sudhan, an advocate, stated that while he was on his way to Tiruttani he noticed the bio waste dumped by the Government Hospital, Tiruvallur, piled up near the hospital entrance.

Middlemen identify landowners and pay them to get consent

About a week ago, the residents of villages in Anamalai Panchayat Union that border Kerala got hold of four lorries that were about to dump wastes alongside roads and in farms. They took up the issue with the district authorities and this led the Anamalai police to register a case.

Mindless dumping of medical wastes in the Chittagong city has put public health in danger, with the authorities turning a blind eye to the hazards.
People from different parts of the city said hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres were dumping blood-soaked cottons, needles, gauges, blades and broken bottles of medicines in dustbins or open spaces near the hospitals and clinics.

COIMBATORE: A day after four lorry loads of medical and municipal wastes brought from the Kerala were seized near Pollachi, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) took up the issue with its counterpart in the neighbouring State.

“Immediately on learning about the dumping of biomedical wastes from Kerala in farmlands at Chemmanampathi near Pollachi, I instructed the TNPCB Chairman to write a letter to the Kerala PCB asking them to take proper steps to prevent such instances

A 1,300-acre dump to bury low-level radioactive waste has opened in a remote corner of west Texas, the fourth U.S. site to allow such waste, despite concerns about water seepage at the site, which sits above the huge and vital Ogallala aquifer.

In a letter to Waste Control Specialists LLC of Dallas, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality granted approval to the company's dump near Andrews, Texas, about 45 miles northwest of Midland and close to the New Mexico border.

The Shillong bench of Gauhati High Court has given another month’s time to the Meghalaya government to file an affidavit explaining the steps initiated to check air, water and waste pollution in the state. On Friday, a division bench of Justice T. Vaiphei and Justice S.R. Sen passed an order by granting the government another four weeks to submit its affidavit.

PANJIM: Goa Civic and Consumer Action Network has written to various authorities calling for a permanent solution to the disposal and burning of medical and plastic waste in an unused quarry close to the Goa Medical College and Hospital in Bambolim which lies close to the National Highway.

The garbage in the quarry has been the cause of fire and smoke which continues to be a routine affair, even as hospital authorities have been caught off guard over finding a long-term solution to the problem.

All houses to be brought under waste management network

The first of the source-level waste processing schemes, declared in the annual budget of the State for 2012-13, will come up in Pala municipality. Speaking at the meeting called to discuss the issue at Pala on Tusday, Finance Minister K.M. Mani said all the houses within the municipal area would be brought under the waste management network within two months.