Bio-Medical Waste Management Cell, DPCC Minutes of the meeting held on 19-2-2007 The following persons attended the committee meeting on 19-2-2007: 1. Sh. J.K. Dadoo, Chairman, DPCC 2. Sh. S.R. Sharma, Member Secretary, DPCC 3. Dr. T.K. Joshi, Director, COEH 4. Dr. Chander Prakash, SEE,BMW 5. Sh. Satender Kumar, EE,BMW 6. Sh. N.K. Joshi, AEE, BMW On the basis of the decisions taken in the meeting held on 31-01-2007, 475 health care institutions are those who had not applied for renewal for authorization under Bio-Medical Rules and are supposed to be issued notices. DPCC has issued the show cause notices to 510 units as against 475 and the additional 35 cases are of newly expired category. These cases have been given 15 days time to respond. MS is to review these cases in first week of March. 375 cases were supposed to be studied by SEE and the reasons for their pendancy to be explained to Chairman by SEE. File was put up without any contribution from SEE. The amounts to dereliction of duties on the part of SEE. MS may now study these cases and reason of delay are to be reported by first week of March,07. Out of 57 public s, 8 hospitals belongs to 0-49 bed strength category and status of remaining 49 hospitals is as follows: a. Valid authorization - 07 b. Decided in the meeting dated 31-1-2007 & 19-2-2007-20 c. Remaining cases - 22 In this meeting, 34 cases of government hospitals were taken up, but only 10 nos. cases of large hospitals could be decided by the committee due to want of time. Summary of the Committee s decisions is indicated below:
Sl Decisions No. 1. 1. Authorization granted subject to the conditions. 2. Show cause notice to apply for consent under Air Act 2. 1. Revocation of directions. 2. Authorization granted subject to the conditions. 3. Show cause notice to apply for consent under Air Act Sl no. of the total list Total number of cases 2,9,16,18 04 4,7 02 3. 1. Show cause notice to apply for consent under Air Act. 2. Show cause notice u/s 5 of EPA for the non-compliance of BMW Rules. 6,8,10,15 04 Total 10
Second meeting of the committee -1 was held in the office of Chairman; DPCC to decide the cases of Government health care institutions having bed strength 50 and the decisions in detail is as follows: Sl Date of Date of No. Authorization Application Consent Application Name of HCE Address of HCE 1. 12-Jan-04 Not Applied Lok Nayak 2. 04-Aug-04 Not Applied Guru Teg Bahadur 3. 13-Oct-04 Not Applied Deen Dayal Upadhya Dist S. NO. Beds Decisions of the committee New Delhi-2 C-001 601 1. Authorization be issued with within Shahdara, Delhi-95 Hari New 64 Nagar, Delhi- NE-001 938 1. Revocation of directions be issued. 2. Authorization be issued with 3. Show cause notice under within W-002 500 1. SCN for one month under section 5 of EPA be issued for tampering & re-segregation of bio-medical waste from the bags at isolated storage site. within. Chairman Member Secretary Dr T.K. Joshi SEE EE AEE
4. 01-May-05 Not Applied Swami Dayanand Hosp. 5. 09-Jun-06 Not Applied Charak Palika Shadara, Delhi-32 NE-002 230 Moti Bagh, ND-003 150 New Delhi- 21 1. Revocation of directions be issued. 2. Authorization be issued with 3. Show cause notice under within 1. SCN for one month under section 5 of EPA be issued for non-operational of ETP, Incinerator & autoclave, segregation of bio- medical waste from the bags at isolated storage site. within. 6. 17-Jun-06 Not Applied Ram Manohar Lohia 7. 30-Jun-06 Not Applied G.B. Pant 8. 25-Aug-06 Not Applied Northern Railway Central Baba Kharak ND-002 937 Singh Marg ND-1 J.L. Nehru Marg, New Delhi-2 Medical Director, Northern Railway,Basant Lane Delhi-55 New 1. Authorization be issued with within C-002 601 1. SCN under section 5 of EPA be issued for proper segregation, sharp management, installation of ETP etc. within months within C-006 312 1. SCN for one month under section 5 of EPA be issued for no reply to the modified direction, tampering & re-segregation of bio-medical waste from the bags at isolated storage site. within.
9. 11-Sep-06 30-11-06 Guru Nanak Maharaja Eye Centre Ranjit Singh Marg, New Delhi 10. 30-Nov-06 Not Applied E.S.I. Basai Darapur,Ring Road, New Delhi-15 C-003 184 1. Authorization be issued with 2. Letter for providing acoustic enclosure with the D.G. set be issued and consent shall be considered thereafter. W-001 600 1. Authorization be issued with within Chairman Member Secretary Dr T.K. Joshi SEE EE AEE
Sub : Action taken Report for the decisions taken in the meeting held on 19-2- The action taken for the decisions taken in the meeting held on 19-2-2007 are as follows : Sl Date of Date of No. Authorization Application Consent Application Name of HCE 1. 12-Jan-04 Not Applied Lok Nayak 2. 04-Aug-04 Not Applied Guru Teg Bahadur 3. 13-Oct-04 Not Applied Deen Dayal Upadhya Address of HCE New Delhi- 2 Shahdara, Delhi-95 Hari Nagar, New Delhi- 64 Decisions of the committee Action taken 1. Authorization be issued with under Air Act within 1. Revocation of directions be issued. 2. Authorization be issued with 3. Show cause notice under under Air Act within 1. SCN for one month under section 5 of EPA be issued for tampering & resegregation of bio-medical waste from the bags at isolated storage site. under Air Act within. 1. Authorization has been 1. Revocation of Direction 2. Authorization has been 3. SCN u/s 21/22 of Air Act 1. SCN u/s 5 of EPA issued on 6-3-
4. 01-May-05 Not Applied Swami Dayanan d Hosp. Shadara, Delhi-32 1. Revocation of directions be issued. 2. Authorization be issued with 3. Show cause notice under under Air Act within 1. Revocation of Direction 2. Authorization has been 3. The SCN u/s 21/22 of Air Act could not be issued as the hospital has applied for consent under air act. 5. 09-Jun-06 Not Applied Charak Palika Moti Bagh, 1. SCN for one month under New Delhi- section 5 of EPA be issued 21 for non-operational of ETP, Incinerator & autoclave, segregation of bio- medical waste from the bags at isolated storage site. under Air Act within. 1. SCN u/s 5 of EPA issued on 6-3- 6. 17-Jun-06 Not Applied Ram Manohar Lohia 7. 30-Jun-06 Not Applied G.B. Pant Baba Kharak Singh Marg ND-1 J.L. Nehru Marg, New Delhi-2 1. Authorization be issued with under Air Act within 1. SCN under section 5 of EPA be issued for proper segregation, sharp management, installation of ETP etc. within months under Air Act within 1. Authorization has been 1. SCN u/s 5 of EPA issued on 6-3-
8. 25-Aug-06 Not Applied Northern Railway Central Medical Director, Northern Railway,Basant Lane New Delhi-55 1. SCN for one month under section 5 of EPA be issued for no reply to the modified direction, tampering & resegregation of bio-medical waste from the bags at isolated storage site. under Air Act within. 1. SCN u/s 5 of EPA issued on 6-3- 9. 11-Sep-06 30-11-06 Guru Nanak Eye Centre 10. 30-Nov-06 Not Applied E.S.I. Maharaja Ranjit Singh Marg, New Delhi Basai Darapur,Ri ng Road, New Delhi- 15 1. Authorization be issued with 2. Letter for providing acoustic enclosure with the D.G. set be issued and consent shall be considered thereafter. 1. Authorization be issued with under Air Act within 1. Authorization has been 2. Letter has been issued on 6-3- 1. Authorization has been Apart from this, show causes notices were sent to 510 hospitals that did not applied for authorization under BMW Rules. The Status of 510 hospitals as on 6-3-2007 is follows: a. Reply received - 076 b. Letter returned back - 033 c. Reply is yet to be received - 401