INDIA

Hazardous care

Hot achievement

Staging a comeback

The old glass syringe is back in Calcutta's government hospitals

Dearth of data: We don’t know much about infections originating in hospitals

It is not possible to develop prevention and control protocols for hospital-associated infections without a comprehensive database

Remedial resolve

Novel medical waste treatment facility in Chennai

Tamil Nadu will soon have its first centralised biomedical waste treatment facility. The unit is being set up in Chennai by the Hyderabad-based G …

Delhi records its first swine flu death

Last week, Hyderabad had reported three deaths due to the flu

Good riddance

Waste management

COVID-19 2nd wave: PM Modi, here are 5 things you should do right away

Surveillance and testing, field hospitals, health corps, a human touch and awareness drives can help stem the current wave of COVID-19 in India

Right to dump

Dealing with waste

Laws to regulate disposal of hospital wastes have been

Treating hospital waste

In the dumps

Delhi hospitals continue to flout biomedical waste management norms

Come 2005

Or, why mohfw should be worried

Paradise lost

Glass syringes vs disposable needles

The Haryana government's recent decision to promote glass syringes is in the midst of a storm. It has, in fact, created clear factions; one that …

Tokyo

AIDS project

Guardian sisters of Aruna Shanbaug

At a time when questions are being raised about ethics in medical practice, the nurses and staff members of KEM hospital who took care of their …

COVID-19: How bio-medical waste poses challenges to urban solid waste management system

With the potential onset of the third wave, it is important to prioritise a separate collection of infectious and highly infectious waste in …

BAN ON DUMPING

South Africa

Guidelines for medical waste