The Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) green bench has directed all public and private hospitals to install incinerators so hospital waste is properly disposed and does not pollute the environment.

The court action should be set against the background of appalling clinical and other waste management activities – generally non-existent – across the entire ISC.

I doubt that poorly controlled burning of wastes in “incinerators” that will probably be little more than simple furnaces will make much contribution, save the transfer of open dumping and contamination of land and water, to a situation where part-burned wastes are similarly dumped but now with additional atmospheric pollution. Hey ho.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/510704/green-bench-court-orders-proper-disposal-of-hospital-waste/