Statesman News Service
MALDA, 16 JUNE: To stop medical waste recycling trade rackets in the district, the sabhadhipati of Malda zilla parishad, chairman of English Bazaar and chief medical officials of health held a meeting on Saturday and adopted some strict resolutions for the development of the health service.
Discussing the matter with the chief medical officer of health, the sabhadhipati of Malda zilla parishad, Mrs Sabina Yesmin, convened an urgent meeting on this issue, when police arrested two people after the discovery of three temporary godowns, close to the district hospital, on 11 June, where a huge amount of used syringes and plastic saline bottles were collected and stored.
According to the CMOH, Dr Srikanta Roy, the chairman and officials of the English Bazaar municipality admitted that the problem was caused by them, due to lack of their own autoclave sterilizer, which cannot dispose risky medical wastes collected from various nursing homes. “The civic body chief wants to dispose of medical waste properly, but they are helpless. They assured to look into the problem seriously and bury risky medical waste properly as much as possible, within their capacity,” said Dr Roy.
The Statesman reported last week: “The English Bazaar municipality collects all medical waste, including risky waste, from nursing homes and dumps it in a small vat, located at Chandan Park in ward No 25. Every morning, rag pickers collect waste like syringes and other plastic items from the vat and sell them to local agents, who use the nearby godowns for the trade of such items.” Though there was a standing order for a cutter to destroy needles and syringes so that they can not be recycled, another fresh order has been issued and the nursing staff have been asked to destroy them after injection, the CMOH, Dr Roy said. “This instruction ought to be followed strictly. There will be no mercy if it is violated,” added Dr Roy.
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