Bio-Medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules impose responsibility on the owners of organizations that create bio-medical waste of ensuring that the waste does not pollute the environs and does not become health hazard to human beings. Hospital, nursing home, clinic, dispensary, veterinary institution, animal house, pathological laboratory and blood bank are the main sources of producing bio-medical waste and these are the foremost that are required to observe the rules pertaining to proper disposal of bio-medical waste. But shockingly, only 50 per cent of these institutions, including the Government run institutions, adhere to the rules of non-pollution. There are handbooks giving definite instructions of handling the bio-waste in proper manner and at a common waste disposal centre. This is not observed at all. Establishments generating bio-medical waste have not even submitted Annual Report under Bio-Medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998 for the period between the months of January and December 2014 by January 31, 2015.
It is the duty of J&K Pollution Control Board to ensure that bio-medical waste is disposed of in proper manner and the reports of compliance are obtained from the institutions including Government institutions so that environmental cleanliness and non-pollution are fully observed.
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