South Africa

Guidelines for medical waste

Let Delhi breathe

Hospitals and hotels asked to use degradable plastic

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 …

Sound burial

In Court

Solar treatment

Disinfects medical waste in an ecofriendly way

Killer hospitals

Nothing goes waste

The biological method of hospital waste management, which helps reclaim degraded land and cultivate medicinal plants, may be the best alternative …

The great sham

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

No polybags in Tripura

ON SEPTEMBER 16, the Tripura government's 20-month-old law banning plastic bags became more stringent. Seeking to remove the crinkles in the …

Hepatitis B is a public health concern in India; but very few know about its transmission, effects & vaccination

Misconceptions and insufficient education on Hepatitis B are widespread; they necessitate targeted information campaigns, finds Sir Ganga Ram …

Disposal of medical waste

Declared dead

Karnataka hospitals face closure for not treating waste

Burn and turn

Is incineration the best option for Mumbai's medical waste?

Plasma pyrolysis plant in Goa faces stiff opposition

Goa plasma pyrolysis plant draws criticism

Treating waste

Participants at a recently-held workshop stressed the need for proper treatment of hospital wastes

New rules for biomedical waste management released

New rules will change the way India manages biomedical waste, promises Prakash Javadekar

Alipore hospital to close down

Flouted waste disposal norms  

Meerut's bane...

HC takes note of hospital waste recycling racket

Environmental racism

POLLUTING HOSPITALS

HOSPITAL WASTE

Hope or hype?

Guarded optimism greets new biomedical waste treatment facility near Kanpur

State of Health: In nearly 14% hospitalisations in rural India, households pushed into debt to pay bills

While the government's share in India's total health expenditure is rising every year, out-of-pocket health spending remains the largest …