Guwahati: Covid-19 has taken casualties in the neighborhood in the northeast with an increase in biomedical waste in the region and with a little space for the right scientific disposal.
In accordance with the government’s answer, Loken Sabha on Friday, Assam itself produced 337.4 tons of waste infected with Covid-19 between June to 2020 to June-2021.
This mammoth biomedical waste is more valid if Covid’s infected biomedical waste is produced by six other northeastern countries (254.4 tons) during the period being taken into account.
Even due to the lack of general biomedical waste treatment facilities (CBWTF) for disposal of waste has emerged as a big problem in the northeast with only one CBWTF in Assam, a large number of these waste may be a threat to public health during the flood of Monsun.
, Underground Burial is the preferred choice in most countries that do not have CBWTF.
According to the central pollution control board guidelines, the burial must be carried out under close and dedicated supervision and must be ensured that there is no contamination that occurs in surface water or ground water.
However, the lack of labor with the pollution council to monitor the situation raises questions about burial during the Covid period, officials said in the Department of Forest and the Environment.
“CBWTF must be encouraged to proper scientific disposal.
Floods make funerals more vulnerable.
In addition, ground water is not far below the surface in countries such as Assam, if we compare scenarios in several states in West India,” said Jagat Deka, assistant engineer at the pollution control agency, Assam (PCBA).
The organization involved in managing biomedical waste felt that if important cities and cities in the region were not taken under the ambit CBWTF, there might be a disaster impact on public health if other waves were more deadly and prolonged in the country.
Ne countries are still struggling to drop the case number even when the worst countries that have been significantly beaten by Covid have recovered.
The only CBWTF of Assam operates in Panikhaiti, on the outskirts of Guwahati, run by PVP fresh air waste management services.
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But the area under his jurisdiction is currently around 150 km Radius, covering several parts of Assam Regency which is lower and centralized.
The Director of Fresh Air Parta Pratim Pathak, who is also a member of the Eastern Zone Executive of all CBWTF India Associations, said “People try to build general biomedical waste treatment facilities in the NE but the biggest obstacle is feasibility.
The generation of income depends on the number of hospital beds in one Regions.
In India, CBWTF requires at least 5,000 beds below to survive.
“Pathak said that there were efforts in countries such as Meghalaya and Mizoram to establish CBWTF but could not obtain industrial forms because fewer hospitals had chosen public facilities , Even many government hospitals around Guwahati are not connected to public facilities and prefer deep burial.
In accordance with the rules for managing biomedical waste, 2016, no residents who set treatment and disposal facilities, if general medical waste treatment facilities are available at a distance of 75 km.
If the CBWTF service is not available, the invaders must regulate the processing of biomedical waste treatment needed such as incinerators and autoclave.
However, Covid-19 has reminded the need for general biomedical waste facilities to protect fragile ecology and virgin areas in the northeast after the volume of unimaginable biomedical waste produced in the region in the past year.
While Manipur and Meghalaya produce 56.5 and 92.2 tons between June-2020 and June-2021, small countries such as Nagaland and Mizoram produce biomedical waste of 34.1 and 29.2 tons during the period.
Tripura produced 7.6 tons, Arunachal Pradesh produced 34.8 tons.