Nagpur: Bio-medical waste (BMW) in some private care tertiary care has accumulated outside the boundaries determined 48 hours over the past two months after the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) contractor extraordinary contractor (SHD) allegedly cut the volume.
for daily pickups.
The affected private hospital says prolonged storage in large quantities of BMW because partial pickups are harmful to health workers, frontline workers, patients and their relatives.
Shd Atul General Manager Panat acknowledged that their vehicle could not collect all BMW from three major hospitals, who had delayed lakh rs30 fees.
“Services for recipients of money that quickly occur without interruption.
The rate is revised according to the norm with the NMC approval.
All pays, except for the three.
They also provoked other hospitals to join them and not pay us.
Because of their large amount of waste, we need a vehicle bigger.
They also failed in the cost of covid waste but we never made it a problem and continued service, “he said.
Vidarbha Hospital Association (VA), in the press record, claims that hospitals have regularly pay the cost of disposal waste according to the agreement.
Memorandum Understanding Tripartite (MoU) signs between NMC, Indian Medical Association (IMA), Nagpur and SHD – valid for 30 years – stating that tariffs will be revised by 10% every year.
The VHA Note stated, “The hospital has regularly paying the demands of the requested Covid waste and the cost of non-covid waste (according to the agreed upon settings).
The problem is related to the hiking part of non-covid waste (called ‘excess quantity’) that is too High and unilateral is collected by a service provider.
What is called excess waste both within the specified limit as determined in the authorization issued by the Maharashtra pollution control agency (MPCB) to their respective hospitals.
“VHA has also written a letter to the city commissioner, caught his attention on the BMW stack.
“The contractor has accused the hospital has asked the company to take more BMW without paying excessive costs.
This has quoted the issue of payment from the end of the hospital for this situation, which is very wrong.
In fact, it has even original payment problems, in greater public interests , the service provider cannot stop or slow down (partial collection), which is bound to duty, in line with the rules of biomedical waste management, “Note added.
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