The Act passed by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 1986 & as per the notified the Bio Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules in July 1998, it is the duty of every “occupier”, (in the case of “New Medical Centre”, NMC, the Managing Director), the person who has the control over the institution or its premises, to take all steps to ensure that waste generated is handled without any adverse effect to human health and environment.
The Biomedical waste management policy followed at NMC is as per the Biomedical Waste Management Rules 2016, notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India as per the gazette notification dated 28th March 2016. Prior to this notification, NMC had been following the Bio-medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 1998 notified by the same ministry. Presently, the biomedical waste management at NMC has been outsourced to a common biomedical waste management facility, M/S Pondicherry Solid Waste Management Company Private Limited (PSWM)
new medical centre , the first initiative of Auro Care Private limited commenced operations on May 11th 1995. At new medical centre, we are committed to the patients we serve. Doctors from all specialities work as a team to care for patients united by the philosophy “The welfare of patients come first”
- Hospital waste: refers to all waste, biological or non‐ biological that is discarded and not intended for further use.
- Bio-medical waste means any waste, which is generated during the diagnosis, treatment or in activities pertaining thereto and includes categories mentioned in Schedule I, of the BMW rules, 2016.
The major salient features of BMW Management Rules, 2016 include the following: -
- The ambit of the rules has been expanded to include vaccination camps, blood donation camps, surgical camps or any other healthcare activity;
- Phase-out the use of chlorinated plastic bags, gloves and blood bags within two years;
- Pre-treatment of the laboratory waste, microbiological waste, blood samples and blood bags through disinfection or sterilization on-site in the manner as prescribed by WHO or NACO;
- Provide training to all its health care workers and immunize all health workers regularly;
- Establish a Bar-Code System for bags or containers containing bio-medical waste for disposal;
- Report major accidents;
- The new rules prescribe more stringent standards for incinerator to reduce the emission of pollutants in environment;
- Existing incinerators to achieve the standards for retention time in secondary chamber and Dioxin and Furans within two years;
- Bio-medical waste has been classified in to 4 categories instead of 10 to improve the segregation of waste at source;
- Procedure to get authorization simplified. Automatic authorization for bedded hospitals. The validity of authorization synchronized with validity of consent orders for Bedded HCFs.
- No occupier shall establish on-site treatment and disposal facility, if a service of `common bio-medical waste treatment facility is available at distance of seventy-five kilometers.
- Operator of a common bio-medical waste treatment and disposal facility to ensure the timely collection of bio-medical waste from the HCFs and assist the HCFs in conduct of training.
- Environmental (Protection) Act 1986
- Environmental (Protection) Act Rules 1986
- Environmental (Protection) Act Rules Amended 2018
- Environmental (Protection) Act Rules Amended February 2019
- Environmental (protection) Act Rules Amended April 2019
Renewal of Authorization of NMC Under Bio Medical Waste Management Rules – 2016
M/s Pondicherry Solidwaste Management Company Private Ltd.,
RS No: 79/5, 80/2, Thuthipet Village,
Villianur Commune,
Puducherry 605 502
Contact Person: Mr. Arumugam
Mobile No: 9894199152
www.nmcpondy.com
Officer: Mr. Parthiban, Manager (House Keeping)
Contact Nos:
Landline: 0413 2261226
Mobile: 8489925568