Representatives of 59 health centres participated at a meeting convened by Ranchi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday to discuss bio-medical waste management.
RMC deputy chief executive officer Gopalji Tiwary said, "Nearly 60% of the health centres are linked to the bio-medical waste disposal agency, Biogenics, but the rest40% are out of the network. We have asked the agency to give us a list of defaulters against whom strict action will be taken."
Some of the hospitals had complaints about the agency not providing sufficient coloured bags (made for different types of wastes) to dispose the bio-medical waste and also not clearing the waste within the allotted time of 48 hours. Tiwary said, "We have directed Biogenics to provide the bags required. The hospitals and nursing homes have also been directed to prepare a list of different coloured bags required."
Tiwari also informed that an insulator with the capacity of burning 100 kg bio-medical waste per hour will be installed in the next four months, which will make the disposal process easier.
More than 28 hospitals are taking advantage of A2Z Company to dispose their solid waste. These hospitals complained that A2Z has not provided bins to them. Tiwari said, "The company has promised to provide the bins before March 5 to all the hospitals."
Other matters that were discussed were submitting birth and death lists of every hospital to the civic body twice a month. "All deaths and births in hospitals will be registered on computers and whenever an applicant approaches the RMC, he will be given certificates without any delay," added Tiwari.
The hospitals and nursing homes also have to take operational licence under the RMC Act 2011. "We have asked all hospitals to upgrade necessary facilities like water, cleanliness and drainage to avoid any kind of unpleasant situation when they apply for a licence," said Tiwary.
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