Health Care Sector produces infectious waste which poses serious threats to environment and human life.  Previously 384 numbers of hospitals visited across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 384 numbers of hearing notices were issued by this Agency. Followed by 329 numbers of Environmental Protection Orders where 237 numbers of hospitals were prosecuted in Environmental Protection Tribunal (EPT).

In compliance of the PHC directives the Environmental Protection Agency along with the district administration visited different hospitals located in PAF canal road and Hayatabad Peshawar, and sealed their Administration/Offices. They were warned to comply with the directives of Environmental Protection Agency and “Hospital Waste Management Rule 2005”. They were further directed to install the incinerator or sign an MoU with the hospital having proper functional incineration facility or any other treatment facility so as to treat the infectious waste accordingly. In this regard the Administration/ Offices of the following hospitals were sealed:

S.No.	Name of Hospital	Action Taken
1	Doctor Diagnostic Hospital	Admin office Sealed
2	Ilyas General Hospital	Admin Office Sealed
3	Badar Hospital	Admin Office Sealed
4	Women Hospital	Admin Office sealed
5	North West General Hospital II	Warned to adopt proper waste disposal procedure
6	Shahab Orthopedic Hospital	HR Office Sealed
7	Zia Medical complex	Finance Office Sealed
8	Medicare Hospital	Supervisor Office Sealed
9	Sahibzada Medical Center	OT Sealed
10	North West General Hospital	CEO Office Sealed
11	Naseer Teaching Hospital	CEO Office Sealed
12	Rahman Medical Institute	Chairman Office Sealed
13	Town Teaching Hospital	Main Entrance Sealed
14	Peshawar Institute of Medical Science	Director Admin Office Sealed
15	Sardar Begum Dental College	Warned to adopt proper waste disposal procedure

 

They are further warned, if these hospitals were failed to comply directives of the Environmental Protection Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa then the hospital will be sealed.