New Delhi: The Delhi Pollution Control board has issued a notice to the Patel Chest Institute for fluting bio-medical waste disposal rules.
The hospital has been given 15 days to reply to the notice and explain its stand.
This comes after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) pulled up the hospital following a CNN-IBN expose.
On December 1, CNN-IBN had reported how Delhi’s top tuberculosis hospital had been putting hundreds of people a risk with contaminated blood and syringes by dumbing the bio-medical waste in a municipal garbage bin.
It was also found that rag pickers repeatedly handled the waste, which could be contaminated with HIV or other contagious diseases, with their bare hands.
The waste included contaminated needles and cotton smeared with infected blood. The dangerous waste should have been disposed off responsibly in an incinerator, but the hospital threw it in the bin in violation of the law.
The hospital administration had, however, reacted saying that it was following the law. The authorities maintained that the waste dumped at the location might not be coming out of Patel Chest.
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