Ahmedabad: A video doing the rounds on social media shows the city civic body’s sanitation workers collecting illegally dumped biowaste including used syringes, saline bottles and used bandages. Two ...

CHENNAI: Posing a huge public health risk, a large quantity of hazardous biomedical waste was found dumped on the Pallavaram Lake bund along Radial Road. Upon information, the Tamil Nadu Pollution ...

The crisis at RN Cooper Municipal General Hospital stretched into its third day as untreated biomedical waste piled up in the hospital’s backyard, and sanitation inside the wards collapsed due to ...

TIRUNELVELI: A large volume of biomedical, plastic, and paper waste generated by Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital (TvMCH) was burnt on the hospital premises, prompting residents of MGR Nagar, ...

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to start collecting biomedical waste from healthcare establishments and set up a plant to handle it, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Wednesday.

In August 1987, the beaches of the United States witnessed a chilling phenomenon dubbed the “Syringe Tide.” Used syringes and other medical waste, such as blood vials and body tissues, began appearing ...