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Globalised city faces several bio-hazards

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Improper bio-hazard waste management imposed on the ecology is threatening the health of society, according to A.N. Yellappa Reddy, former Secretary of Environment, Ecology and Forest, who went on to say: "The increase in human traffic due to globalisation and increased national tourism made hospital and hotel effluent treatment an issue of particular concern." He was addressing a national colloquium on "Effluent and other Waste Management in Health Care Settings" organised by the German Technology Corporation along with the Department of Community Medicine, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, here recently. The programme was a platform to discuss the threat to the eco-system from bio-hazard waste.

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