Bio Medical Waste Management Consulting

Biomedical waste is the waste generated from the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of diseases. The bio-medical waste is generated in hospitals, health clinics, nursing homes, emergency medical services, medical research laboratories, offices of physicians, dentists, veterinarians, home health care and morgues or funeral homes. Bio-medical waste include discarded blood, sharps, used bandages and dressings, discarded gloves, needles, scalpels, lancets.

• All persons or entities which generate, collect, receive, store, transport, treat, dispose of or handle bio medical waste in any form, including hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, dispensaries, veterinary institutions, animal houses, pathological laboratories, blood banks, ayush hospitals, clinical establishments and research or educational institutions, are subject to the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016.
• Every occupier is responsible for taking all necessary steps to ensure that bio-medical waste is managed safely and in compliance with these rules, without causing harm to human health or the environment and provide a safe, ventilated and secure location within the premises for the storage of segregated biomedical waste in coloured bags or containers in the manner specified in Schedule I, to ensure that no secondary handling, pilferage of recyclables or inadvertent scattering or spillage by animals occurs and the bio-medical waste from such location or premises shall be transferred directly, in accordance with these regulations, to a common bio-medical waste treatment facility or, as the case may be, for proper treatment and disposal in accordance with Schedule I. 
   

• Maintain and update the bio-medical waste management register on a daily basis in all bedded health care units and display the monthly record on its website according to the bio-medical waste generated in terms of category and colour coding as defined in Schedule I.
• On or before June 30th of each year, every occupier or operator of a common bio-medical waste treatment facility must submit an annual report in Form-IV to the prescribed authority.
• In accordance with these rules and guidelines issued by the Central Government or the Central Pollution Control Board or the prescribed authority as the case may be, every authorised person shall keep records related to the generation, collection, reception, storage, transportation, treatment, disposal or any other form of handling of bio-medical waste for a period of five years.
• Make the annual report available on its website within two years of the date of publication of the Bio-Medical Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2018 in the case of all bedded health care facilities (any number of beds).
   

There is no Government fee for annual submission of Bio-Medical Waste Compliances. If an agency is hired for the same, it may charge you for the services rendered. Metacorp charges Rs.5,000 to Rs.10,000 annually for submission of Bio-Medical Waste Management Authorization compliances.