Staff Reporter
Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has directed Liaquat National Hospital (LNH) administration to ensure strict compliance to Hospital Waste Management (HWM) Rules 2014, aimed at safe disposal of medical waste.
The SEPA team, headed by its Additional Director General, Waqar Hussain Phulpoto, during its detailed visit to monitor LNH’s hospital waste management (HWM) system, had found that insufficient measures were being taken to comply with the relevant laws.
Bashir Ahmed, representing LNH administration, on the occasion briefed the team on their HWM procedure and also assured to remove, what he cited as, minor deficiencies in their HWM system with particular reference to waste segregation and storage processes. SEPA team had observed that while segregating the infectious and hazardous waste from municipal waste authorized guidelines were not fully followed, putting the health of workers engaged in the subject task under risk.
The team had also pointed out that municipal waste may be kept away from the medical waste during segregation process so as to avoid likelihood of spread of harmful germs through it.
