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Efficient: P.W.C. Davidar, Special Secretary, Health and Family Welfare and Project Director, Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project, speaking at a workshop on ‘Bio Medical Waste Management’ in Tiruchi on Wednesday. TIRUCHI: A little over 41,000 health workers were expected to get basic training in medical waste management from 800 master trainers, the Project Director of Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project (TNHSP) and Special Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, P.W.C. Davidar said. Speaking to the reporters on the sidelines of the ‘Sensitization workshop on bio-medical waste management’ on Wednesday, Mr. Davidar said that the pilot project of hospital waste management would streamline the anomalies in disposing the medical waste. He expressed optimism that state-wide training of health staff on hospital waste management would put pressure on private players to stick to the norms of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board in disposing medical waste. Four centres –Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Tiruchi – have been chosen for training the health staff in 270 government hospitals and 30-bedded primary health centres. A master trainer from each hospital would be chosen for an intensive training at Chennai, who would in turn train their institutional staff on waste disposal. The training programme would deal with segregation of wastes in four coloured bins – red, yellow, black and blue – in accordance with the variations in treating the waste. The medical wastes were procured in kilograms by the private bodies that own common treatment plants, with price ranging from Rs.26 to Rs.41 a kg. TNHSP would distribute bins, gloves and weighing machines by next month to the hospitals, Mr. Davidar said. For intensive monitoring mechanism, hospital infection control committees and quality circles would be formed. The second phase of the project would be extended to corporation hospitals. Over 75 lakh of saline bottles, which has been disposed in three months, yielded a revenue of Rs.14 lakh and the accumulated saline bottles in all government hospitals and PHCs, estimated to cross two crores, would be disposed in five months, he said. Chief Medical Officers, Joint Directors of Health and Family Welfare, Deputy Directors of Public Health Services and Deans of government medical colleges attended the sensitisation workshop. Deputy Directors of TNHSP Julia and K. Vinay Kumar briefed them on the implementation of bio-medical waste management, Medical Officer, TNHSP, M.S.P. Saravanan charted out the training plan and Programme Officer, TNHSP, V. Jaisee Suvetha spoke on monitoring and evaluation.
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