Bio-medical waste of Karnal Civil Hospital to have barcode

KARNAL: The Civil Hospital is going to introduce barcoding on packets of bio-medical waste for effective collection and disposal. The move comes after the Civil Hospital and Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College (KCGMC) had “argued” for long about who is responsible for the bio-medical waste being dumped in the open on the common road of both the buildings.

Civil Hospital, Karnal

Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, August 9

The Civil Hospital is going to introduce barcoding on packets of bio-medical waste for effective collection and disposal.

The move comes after the Civil Hospital and Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College (KCGMC) had “argued” for long about who is responsible for the bio-medical waste being dumped in the open on the common road of both the buildings.

The hospital authorities have placed the order for Bluetooth-enabled weighing machine and barcoding equipment. It is expected that by the end of August, this facility will be functional in the Civil Hospital.

Earlier on several occasions, the cleaning staff of both the institutions had had verbal spats over the disposal of bio-medical waste. Both the institutes used to blame each other for the bio-medical waste which used to lie in the dustbins on the common road between the institutions. The Tribune had highlighted this issue.

“Under the guidelines of the Haryana Pollution Control Board for fixing barcodes on each and every packet of bio-medical waste under Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, we are going to start barcoding of bio-medical waste, so that one can easily know whose waste is it,” said Dr Virender Yadav, Principal Medical Officer (PMO).

He said that dedicated staff members would pack the bio-medical waste after weighing it and fix a barcode with the help of barcoding equipment. “The weight and number of the packet would be recorded in the hospital computer as well as on the website of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board,” Dr Yadav said.

He said that at the disposal point, it could be checked whether the disposal company has disposed it properly or not. The barcode at the disposal point would reveal as to which hospital it belongs.

The procedure

Dedicated staff members will pack the bio-medical waste after weighing it and fix a barcode with the help of barcoding equipment.
The weight and number of the packet would be recorded in the hospital computer as well as on the website of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board.