INDIA

Hazardous care

Hot achievement

Staging a comeback

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

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 …

Good riddance

Waste management

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

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

Hg's a plague

Mercury hits Indian healthcare

Let Delhi breathe

Hospitals and hotels asked to use degradable plastic

Killer hospitals

The great sham

Under pressure from the Supreme Court, the Delhi government resorts to a five-day charade to clean up the Yamuna