Bengaluru medical units fined Rs 54,000 for dumping waste

BENGALURU: BBMP's health wing on Thursday slapped a fine of Rs 54,000 on five nursing homes diagnostic centres in Dasarahalli for dumping bio-medical waste in public places. A team headed by Dr R Surendra, deputy health officer, and senior health inspector and health officer conducted the inspection.

Dr Manjula Keerthi who runs Lakshmi Nursing Home at Chokkasandra was told to pay Rs 25,000; Dr Chandrakantha's Vivek Scan Centre at National Highway-4, Tumakuru Road, and the dental clinic run by Dr Venkatesh on Tumakuru Road were asked to cough up Rs 10,000 each. In addition, Rs 5,000 penalty has been slapped on Sumukha Poly Clinic run by Dr Shylaja and Rs 4,000 on Dr Subbareddy's Modern Diagnostic Centre.

Send back unsegregated muck, says mayor

With garbage heaps piling up in parts of the city after the festive week, the mayor took stock of the situation at Mavallipura and Doddaballapur waste-processing units. At Mavallipura, G Padmavathi instructed the staff not to accept unsegregated waste. She said the unit may find it difficult to handle excess muck; it receives 250 tonnes every day.

At the Doddaballapur unit, which gets 500 tonnes of waste daily, the mayor asked the staff to speed up the process to avoid accumulation. “All efforts should be made to process the waste on the same day,“ she said.