Minister for Environment and Forests Bojjala Gopalakrishna Reddy has said every individual must play a role in protecting the environment to create a pollution-free society.
Speaking after inaugurating the office of Safe Medi Aides set up by Safe Environ organisation in Bishop Azaraiah School complex, the Minister said growing pollution levels were causing environmental imbalance resulting in natural calamities.
“We all must realise our responsibility to pass on a pollution-free environment to our next generations and so work towards it,” he added.
The Minister said each individual must plant a sapling and look after it until it grows into a full-fledged tree.
Pointing to the fact that unlike in the past when biomedical waste was dumped either in drains or open garbage bins resulting in outbreak of diseases, he said that the new biomedical waste treatment plant has paved the way for scientific treatment and disposal of biomedical waste.
He also complimented the Safe Environ firm for introducing in the market the imported specialised medical syringes, needle collectors and cutters which were of enormous use for both medical fraternity and patients.
Safe Environ chairman Velagapudi Venkateswara Rao said the firm was the first one under the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation to adopt scientific method of disposing hospital waste in 1999.
Later in 2002, the process was initiated in Krishna, Guntur and West Godavari districts.
Minister for Environment and Forests Bojjala Gopalakrishna Reddy inaugurates the office of Safe Medi Aides
