TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has directed the Ponda sub-district hospital to apply for Consent under the Water, Air and Environment Acts within seven days, or face closure. The hospital has also been asked to stop burning biomedical waste within its premises.
After the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC), this is the second medical facility which has been found to be operating without the consent to operate.
The board in an order issued on Friday under section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 read with the Biomedical Waste (management and handling) Rules, 1998, has directed the medical superintendent of the hospital to stop dumping and burning of bio-medical waste within the premises of the hospital and asked it to file a compliance report within a week’s time.
The directions were issued based on a site inspection, carried out following a complaint alleging that the bio-medical waste was being burnt by the hospital within its premises, leading to air and water pollution and causing health hazard.
Goa StatePollution Control BoardChairman Jose Manual Noronha, in a series of directions issued to the hospital, ihad nstructed them to submit an application for obtaining the Consent which they have failed to obtain thus violating the provisions of the said acts.
.The GSPCB during its May inspection, observed that hospital has a non-functional plastic shredder autoclave and sewage treatment plant.
After the GMC?this is the second medical facility which has been found to be operating without the consent to operate
