BHUBANESWAR: “Biomedical waste, if not managed properly, will prove to be hazardous for society,” said Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare while inaugurating the State-level interaction on ‘Biomedical Waste Management: A State Concern’ organised by the Multi-Disciplinary Center on Safety, Health and Environment here on Tuesday.
He suggested for organising training
and awareness programmes regularly on the subject amongst the hospital staff
and other stakeholders to have a good and sustainable waste management
practice. These programmes should be inclusive programmes so that no one is
left out irrespective of whether one does the actual work of creation and
management of such wastes, he added.
“The provisions Biomedical Waste
(Management and Handling) Rules have to be implemented in letter and spirit
rather than treating the rules and their enforcement as an avoidable irritation
from the Pollution Control Board,” Bhandare said.
Bhandare also said the Health
Department should own and operate the rules themselves and the Government
Medical Colleges and Hospitals in particular are expected to make themselves as
model hospitals. The segregation of Biomedical Waste of the source, providing
the needle destroyers at the injection rooms, transportation of these waste and
finally their treatment and disposal have to be compiled as per the prescribed
norms, he added.
President of the Centre Ajit
Kumar Tripathy presided over the seminar. Among others, Development
Commissioner RN Senapati, State Health Secretary PK Mohapatra, DMET Prof PK
Das, Vice-president CR Mohapatra, Secretary GD Rath and GS Khuntia were present.
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