The crisis at RN Cooper Municipal General Hospital stretched into its third day as untreated biomedical waste piled up in the hospital’s backyard, and sanitation inside the wards collapsed due to ...

The bill was passed in the Assembly in April 2025 amid incidents of medical waste from neighbouring Kerala being dumped in border districts of Tamil Nadu leading to an outrage.

168 hospitals and 17 waste treatment facilities in state found to be in violation of biomedical waste management rules in last 1 year; unscientific dumping rampant in absence of monitoring mechanism, ...

The state government hospitals will now have to prepare a waste management plan for disposal of bio-medical waste as per the 'Swachhta Guidelines for Public Health Facilities' released by the Centre ...

Mumbai, Dec 05: Complaints of improper biomedical waste disposal at Cooper Hospital, run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), were submitted to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board ...

Serious lapses in biomedical waste management at the State Tuberculosis Training and Demonstration Centre (STDC) in Aundh have sparked alarm over potential exposure to drug-resistant tuberculosis ...