The National Assembly was informed Tuesday that a proper mechanism was in place to dispose of waste materials of the public sector hospitals of the capital city.
Responding to a calling attention notice, Parliamentary Secretary for Cabinet Javed Ikhlas informed the House that there were proper arrangements in place for burning and disposing off the infectious wastes in all the hospitals.
He informed the House that there are three big public sector hospitals including Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Polyclinic and National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (NIRM) in the federal capital.
The waste of two of these hospitals was being managed by government agencies while one of the hospitals had an agreement with a private sector company to dispose of the waste.
The parliamentary secretary said that the Ministry of Climate Change and Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) had been supervising to ensure that the hospital waste is properly burnt and disposed of.
“We have international obligations to dispose of this infectious material properly to save people from various diseases,” the parliamentary secretary said.
To a question about management of hospital waste in private sector hospitals, he informed the House that big private sector hospitals like Shifa International, have been managing their waste material on their own.
As far as other clinics and hospitals are concerned, the Parliamentary Secretary said that CADD and Environmental Protection Agency had been closely monitoring to ensure cleanliness in the hospitals.
MNAs Shista Pervaiz and Farhana Qamar had raised the question of cleanliness in hospitals of the federal capital, expressing concern that the hospitals’ waste material was not being disposed of properly.
They were of the view that some of the waste was being stolen on its way to the dumping site for re-use in various clinics and hospitals.
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