The dumping of biomedical waste and other bio hazardous materials in tanks and waterbodies continues unchecked in the city even though NGOs and Youth movements are creating awareness and cleaning up waterbodies in the city of these accumulated wastes.
A huge cache of medical wastes including pills, tablets, and liquid medicine are found dumped in Muthannan kulam callously by the some miscreants.
It is pathetic conditon that our life sustaining waterbodies are now being increasingly used as dump yards for medical waste, plastic wastes, construction debris and other solid wastes.
"The bioharzardous waste could pose health hazards to both man and animals when ingested by them. The wastes can easily get mixed with water bodies and prove fatal for those consuming the polluted water", say medical experts.
Even though there are recommended procedures and norms for the safe disposal of medical waste and service agencies are aplenty for proper pickup, treatment and disposal of these wastes the callous way in which medical waste is dumped continues to this day.
“When stray cattle ingest them it might pose health problem including cancer to the bovines and it might also get mixed in drinking water resources, which might pose health hazardous in humans too", say health experts in the city.
The civic body should monitor and trace the source of polluters and penalize them to prevent such callous disposal of medical wastes in water bodies say public watchers.