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Bio medical Waste Management is a crucial need in the country today. There is an increasing concern about harmful effects of biomedical waste.Bio-medical waste is infectious in nature. Inadequate management of biomedical waste can be associated with risks to healthcare workers, patients, communities and their environment as hospitals are located at prime areas of towns and cities. All these years, biomedical waste was being disposed along with municipal waste, unaware of its ill effects on environment. Due to rising legal and social concern, Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) have framed separate rules for safe disposal of Municipal solid waste and Bio-medical waste (BMW).
Implementation of biomedical waste management rules has posed a new challenge to the hospital management. Many health care centres have not yet established standard practices for inventory and segregation of waste. There is a massive problem of bio-medical waste disposal as several hospitals collect the medical waste and dump them in open grounds rather than treating and disposing them in safe manner.
To ensure safe and proper disposal of biomedical waste, MoEF has notified Bio medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2016 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to replace the earlier BMW (M&H) rules 1998 and the amendments thereof. These rules shall apply to all persons who generate, collect, receive, store, transport, treat, dispose or handle biomedical waste in any form. The new rules stipulate that irrespective of the quantum of biomedical waste generation, every occupier of an institution which includes a hospital, nursing home, clinic, dispensary, veterinary institution, animal house, pathological laboratory, blood bank shall apply for grant of authorization to the prescribed authority. The rules make hospital and owner of the medical waste treatment facility liable for all damages caused due to improper handling of waste. In order to understand the rules,treatment technologies and scientific disposal of BMW this programme has been designed for the benefit of the participants.
The objective of this 3-day programme is to provide information on scientific approach to the bio medical waste management by addressing the latest methods involved in safe handling and disposal options in line with the current and proposed legal & statutory requirements. The program focuses on the various provisions of Bio Medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2016 and its implications on the health care and associated sectors.
Latest Indian Scenario - Bio medical Waste Management (BMWM) in align with Covid-19
The Bio medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2016 and BMWM (Amendment) rules BMW Treatment Equipment
Bio Medical Waste Treatment Technologies and its disposal
Guidelines and Criteria to set up Common Bio medical Waste Treatment Facility (CBWTF)
Audit of Bio medical Waste management
Role of Bio medical waste Generators, Authorities, Stakeholder and NGOs
Future Challenges for Bio medical Waste Management, Environmentally Sound Management Techniques
National Green Tribunal regarding compliance of Bio-Medical Waste Rules 2016 Case Studies and Group discussions
06 – 08 April, 2021
