UNIDO, PPCB launch biomedical waste management project

LUDHIANA: The project Environmentally Sound Management of Medical Waste in India was launched today at the Dayanand Medical College and Hospital DMCH jointly by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation UNIDO and the Punjab Pollution Control Board PPCB

Updated At : 07:04 AM Nov 30, 2016 IST

Phlippe R Scholtes from UNIDO (second from left) speaks during the project launch at DMCH in Ludhiana on Tuesday. photo: inderjeet Verma

Ludhiana, November 29

The project— ‘Environmentally Sound Management of Medical Waste in India’ was launched today at the Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) jointly by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB).

Phlippe R Scholtes, managing director, UNIDO from Austria, launched the model of the project. The project will be implemented in five states of India including Punjab, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Odisha. In all, 28 hospitals in each of the five states and one common treatment facility will be developed into a model for other hospitals. —TNS

UNIDO, PPCB launch biomedical waste management project

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