AHMEDABAD: A key monitoring and coordinating committees for bio-medical waste in Ahmedabad has been non-functional. A latest reply to an RTI utility on the topic exhibits that regardless of the bio-medical waste (BMW) administration guidelines coming into existence in 2016 and their revision in 2018, the 12-member monitoring physique, which have to be shaped beneath the district collector, has not been functioning.Within the RTI utility filed with the Gujarat Air pollution Management Board (GPCB) workplace in Gandhinagar, the biomedical waste division responded to Bavla city resident Praful Mehta, stating their workplace has “no information on the activities undertaken by the collectorled district-level monitoring committee on BMW”. Mehta stated, “I had sought copies of the minutes of the meetings undertaken by the committee.” He added, “We have filed several complaints of illegal dumping of medical waste in Bavla, Dholka, Viram gam, Sanand and even Bagodara. Each time, we have approached the GPCB, which acts, but at the district and city level, the collector has to monitor and ensure coordination between various departments.”The duties of the monitoring committee embrace guaranteeing implementation of guidelines in any respect healthcare services or occupiers, sufficient allocation of funds to govt healthcare services for BMW administration, professional curement and allocation of remedy gear and making provisions for consumables for BMW in govt healthcare services.Moreover, the committee is chargeable for implementing suggestions of the advisory committee in all healthcare services. As per the government order issued in July 2020, the advisory committee ought to embrace the collector, the district improvement officer, the regional officer of GPCB, the medical officer of AMC, the district president of the Indian Medical Affiliation (IMA), the supervisor of the personal agency managing BMW incineration services, Unicef or every other knowledgeable on public well being, and the chief district well being officer. A senior GPCB official informed TOI, “We have been directly acting on complaints filed by citizens. Recently, we penalized a medical institution in Gandhinagar for not following medical waste disposal rules.”In accordance with the GPCB official, the district commit tee is supposed for coordinating actions of these concerned in BMW administration, whereas motion can solely be taken by the GPCB.
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