PANJIM: Goa’s first Common Biomedical Waste Treatment Facility (CBMWTF) would be set up at Kundaim Industrial Estate, with Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) allotting 10,000 sq mtrs of land for it. On an average, the State generates around 180 tonnes of bio-medical waste per month.
Until the facility becomes functional, bio-medical waste from the State will be treated at the Hubbali-Dharwad CBMWTF at Hubbali.
The IDC board meeting on December 4 unanimously resolved to allot land in the industrial estate to the department of Science, Technology and Environment for setting up the CBMWTF.
As per the Goa Bio-medical Waste Rules, there has to be one such facility for every 10,000 hospital beds. Goa has around 5,200 hospital beds and the bio-medical waste should be treated scientifically within 48 hours.
The facility will have treatment facilities like incineration, auto-claving or microwaving, chemical disinfection, shredder, effluent treatment plant, washing and others.
The State government had recently constituted a 10-member expert committee for setting up of CBMWTF.
