Kidwai hospital installs ETP
The City-based Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology formally inaugurated its Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) in the presence of Medical Education Minister Ramchandra Gowda and Secretary I M Vittal Murthy on Tuesday.
The plant, constructed at a cost of Rs 65 lakh, can treat three lakh litres every day. The water used in Operation Theatre, blood bank, labs, wards, laundry, etc, will be treated and disinfected at the plant by Extended Aeration Activated Sludge process. There are plans to utilise treated water for gardening based upon its quality. BWSSB is the key source of water to the hospital.
“ETPs at Victoria and Lady Curzon and Bowring hospitals will be completed by August end,” Gowda said. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases has been given time till October to make its ETP plant functional. “Even private hospitals with over 100 beds have to compulsorily install ETP,” he said. He also said Rs 12 crore had been put aside to install ETPs in Government Hospitals across the State. In June, last year, nine Government Hospitals were given closure orders for not installing ETP by Karnataka State Pollution Control Board under the order of Lok Adalat. The hospitals were given time till February 13, this year, to set up the plants but the deadline was extended.
Guidelines
The National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) is planning to implement screening, prevention and treatment facility for common cancers in 100 districts across the country. It will also look into holding organised cancer screening programmes at district-level, presently lacking in the country.
Kidwai Director Dr Vijay Kumar said NCCP also plans to create uniform policy especially for six common cancers - breast, oral, cervical, head and neck, colon and rectum. “We don’t have protocol or guidelines when it comes to using the three modalities - surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy - of therapy,” said Dr Vijay Kumar. He said the guidelines could inform patients whether a hospital was overcharging.
