To protect human health and the environment, the Ministry of Environment and Forests had notified the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 under the Environment (Protection) Act, ...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) issued new guidelines on biomedical waste management, prompted by the findings of a performance audit on the Common Bio-medical Waste Treatment ...

Medical waste disposal is critical to healthcare management. Biomedical waste refers to any waste that contains infectious or potentially infectious materials. It is generated during various medical ...

This comes in the backdrop of a formal complaint regarding the hospital’s non-compliance with the Biomedical Rules of 2016 and the improper handling and disposal of blood-contaminated waste. : The ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), based in the capital, has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with All India Institute of ...

Bengaluru: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticised the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) for failing to exercise adequate regulatory control over the generation, ...

The COVID-19 outbreak has left its impact on the health, social, economic and environment sector too. The vaccine has brought a ray of hope, but the absence of a strategy for disposing of ...

At a time when hospitals are struggling to get rid of biomedical waste, the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ...

T'puram: Union minister for science and technology Jitendra Singh will formally launch an automated biomedical waste conversion rig that can disinfect pathogenic biomedical waste such as blood, urine, ...

The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) launched hospital waste management training program with the first training session held at Lyari General Hospital on Monday.The initiative is aimed at ...