PIMS makes medical waste disposal system fully functional

Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has made it fully functional of its system to properly dispose of medical waste in the hos pital.According to the hos pital spokesperson Dr. Mubashir Mushtaq Daha, following Secre- tary Health’s directions, measures were adopted
on an emergency basis to dispose of the hospital’s waste and make the sys- tem fully functional.
He said PIMS Executive Director (ED) Prof Dr. Imran Sikandar had con- stituted a waste manage- ment committee to take immediate steps including removing faults in the machine being used to incinerate the medical waste of the hospital. He said that the committee had also prepared guidelines to dispose of the medi- cal waste, adding that the hospi- tal had also es tablished a mechanism to separately dispose of the infectious and non-infectious waste, Dr. Mubashir said, “Now a situation well-organized system is in place in the hospi tal to incinerate medical waste. Only in the last month of May, the hos pital had disposed of medical waste of 21,985 kilograms” He said that the new system will immediately address all issues related to the hospital’s waste while the ED PIMS will personally