ISLAMABAD:Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has made it fully functional of its system to properly dispose of medical waste in the hospital.
According to spokesperson PIMS Executive Director Dr. Mubashir Mushtaq Daha, following the directions of the Secretary of Health, measures were adopted on an emergency basis to dispose of the hospital’s waste and make the system fully functional.
He said that guidelines had been prepared by the hospital to dispose of the medical waste.
He added the hospital had also established a mechanism to separately dispose of the infectious and non-infectious waste.
Dr Mubashir said, “Now well-organized system is in place in the hospital to incinerate medical waste. Only in the last month, the hospital 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 supervise the situation.
He added with the immediate disposal of medical waste, the chances of the spread of infections will be minimized besides ensuring improvements in the cleanness of the hospital.