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Okhla bio-medical waste plant may finally shift

NEW DELHI: An year-long wait to get land allocated for a centralised bio-medical waste plant in Okhla here might come to an end soon. The Directorate of Health Services is hopeful that the Delhi Development Authority will allocate land for the project this month.Designed to treat waste produced by small and private hospitals in the city, the facility had run into trouble after residents near the plant protested against the negative health and environment impact and forced the Directorate to look for another plot of land to set up the facility. “The Okhla centralised bio-medical waste treatment facility was proposed keeping in mind the problems faced by smaller hospitals and nursing homes. This also had to be provided at a reasonable cost. The facility at Okhla was to be established in collaboration with a private entrepreneur. The facility when set up will have a capacity to clear ten tonnes of waste per day,” says State Programme Officer (Bio-medical Waste Management) K. S. Baghotia.

Delhi hospitals together produce more than 30 tonnes of bio-medical waste every day. The waste disposal centre when set up is expected to assist in monitoring of safe waste disposal and enable the government to maintain the requisite pollution control measures often compromised in the absence of the facility.

Officials at the bio-medical waste management cell claim that private medical centres in the city produce waste, but the disposal facilities available to them were unsatisfactory. “The problem gets aggravated with private hospitals and smaller establishments disposing of waste in a hazardous manner. Under our project we will allow private companies to collect, transport and suitably destroy the bio-medical waste,” says Dr. Baghotia. He adds that while large hospitals in the city have their own waste disposal system, smaller hospitalsand laboratories have to rely on other hospitals for waste disposal.

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