Minister for Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Y. Satya Kumar Yadav on Thursday approved new guidelines for the safe disposal of hospital equipment in disuse for a long time at government hospitals.
Hitherto, the hospitals would carry out the disposal process only after biomedical engineers submitted a report. Now, the process has been done away with, since the availability of limited number of such engineers is leading to piling up of waste at hospitals.
As per the new guidelines, Government General Hospitals, District Hospitals and other such facilities can dispose of the accumulated equipment themselves, and this has to be done in 45 days. The Hindu