168 hospitals and 17 waste treatment facilities in state found to be in violation of biomedical waste management rules in last 1 year; unscientific dumping rampant in absence of monitoring mechanism, ...

One man’s waste is another man’s treasure, literally so in the case of biomedical waste. On an average, a hospital generates about 100 gramme of plastic waste every day per bed in the form of surgical ...

ADILABAD: Irregularities in the collection and disposal of biomedical waste — needles, syringes, saline bottles, pipes, parts of human bodies and foetuses — have been observed in the erstwhile ...