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RDO’s directive to clinics, patho labs

BERHAMPUR: All private clinics and patho-labs in the city were given strict instructions by the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Satyabrata Sahu to get their biomedical waste processed at the facilities in the MKCG medical college campus. Orders were made to start the process by June 15.

The private medical centers in the city do not have proper biomedical disposal facility and they were alleged to be major pollutants in the city. A conference was held in the conference hall of the RDC on Wednesday to deal with this problem of bio-medical waste management.

This conference was attended by the Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO), representative of the regional pollution control board, representatives of the private clinics of the city, officials of local municipality, superintendent and administrative officer of the MKCG medical college. The bio-medical waste disposal unit in the MKCG medical college campus was established at a cost of over Rs. 50 lakh.

It has the capacity to destroy 400 kilogram of bio-medical waste every day. But it is underutilised as the total mount of biomedical waste generated in the medical college campus does not exceed 100 kilogram on any day.

So, it would have no problem to handle the bio-waste collected from private units. Ranjan Sharma, the administrative officer of the medical college said they were ready to increase the capacity of the bio-waste management unit if needed. The private medical units were slightly reluctant to pay up fee for the destruction of their bio-waste. But the RDC passed strict orders that processing of biomedical waste generated by private clinics in MKCG medical college facilities would have to start by June 15.

According to him the private clinics would have to pay up a fee for it as their duty to get their waste destroyed in proper manner. “It is their social obligation,” Mr Sahu said.

A committee was formed to fix the charges for the lifting and management of biomedical wastes from private clinics.

It was decided to have regular checks on patho-labs and private clinics to assess their of bio-waste disposal method. It was decided to lock them up if they were not found to be polluting the city with their wastes. Action would also be taken against the unregistered polluting patho-labs in the city.

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