Waiting: The district’s two incinerators have been shuttered for twelve years. Patna is still required for the disposal of medical waste. Patna is receiving medical waste, and IGIMS Nawada-Sheikhpura is not benefiting from the equipment either. The incinerators at Beedi Mazdoor Hospital and Pawapuri Medical College are rusting. The district’s 172 hospitals generate more than two quintals of medical garbage per day. Photo: Pawapuri Medical garbage: Pawapuri Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Science Institute’s incinerator.
Own Correspondent Biharsharif/Pawapuri. The Nalanda district’s medical waste disposal condition is really dire.
For more than 12 years, the incinerator at the Bhagwan Mahavir Institute of Medical Sciences (BMIMS) and Beedi Mazdoor Hospital in Pawapuri has not been in use. As a result, Patna IGIMS continues to receive biological waste for disposal from all of the district’s clinics and hospitals. The districts of Nalanda, Nawada, and Sheikhpura will all gain from its commissioning.
Every day, the 172 hospitals in the area produce more than two quintals of medical waste. Nevertheless, Nalanda district’s expanding demands cannot be met by the one van that comes from Patna IGIMS each day to collect medical waste. In order to regularly carry this material to the incinerators, the district needs have three specialized waste collecting trucks and at least one contemporary incinerator unit, according to health experts.
Nalanda, as well as the districts of Nawada and Sheikhpura, would gain from the functioning of the incinerators at Pawapuri Medical College and Beedi Hospital. Clinics in these regions may securely dispose of their medical waste locally. This will result in time and resource savings.
The district’s health facilities include the 500-bed Pawapuri Medical College, the 300-bed Sadar Hospital, seven 30-bed community health clinics, and a six-bed primary health center in each block. In addition, the district’s numerous cities are home to over 150 registered private clinics. In Paithana, a hospital has also established. Every day, around 172 hospitals produce hundreds of kg of organic waste that has to be properly disposed of.
The cities are home to dozens of smaller clinics and diagnostic facilities. These might make the numbers much more alarming. Since 2013, the machine has not undergone testing: Pawapuri Medical College erected an incinerator in 2013, however it has not yet undergone testing. The equipment at Bidi Hospital is in the same predicament.
The management of the college and hospital has written to the Health Ministry many times in an attempt to make it functioning, but nothing tangible has happened. People’s optimism in this matter has been restored since the new government was formed. Public disposal of medical waste: The fact that medical waste is being publicly disposed of even in densely inhabited places, such as Ranchi Road in Bihar Sharif city, indicates how serious the problem is.
Occasionally, medical trash is discovered discarded on the western portion of the Sadar Hospital site, which presents a significant danger of pollution and infection. The principal voiced worry and promised to make an attempt. Pawapuri Medical College has been asking the Health Department to get the equipment working on a regular basis.
The Pollution Control Board’s lack of authorization is the root of the issue. She said that another letter would be sent to the department and that every attempt will be made to find a quick solution so that the advantages may be realized. Principal Professor Dr. Sarvil Kumari
