The Orissa high court has directed the state government to file a status report on the disposal mechanism of biomedical waste at the medical colleges in Cuttack, Burla and Berhampur. The court gave the order while hearing a PIL, filed by social outfit Maitree Sansad in 2003. The PIL alleged that the indifferent attitude of the government in adopting prescribed norms and methods for disposal of bio-medical waste has put the patients’ life at risk in the three medical college hospitals, and the people at large. The high court, while…
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