Know more about this blame game between pollution board vs Indian Medical Association vs Jharkhand government, which has a messy domino effect. The state pollution board, under the scanner of Jharkhand High Court for its inability to curb the unbridled mushrooming of private clinics, more than half of which do not take responsibility for clearing medical waste, believes it is being pulled up for something that isn't part of its domain. Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) chairman A.K.
Mishra said setting up biomedical waste treatment plants wasn't part of the board's job description and blamed the state chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA) for not adopting a more proactive, and therefore responsible, role by convincing medical units to dispose of waste they create. "Setting up treatment plants is not our job. It is the responsibility of medical entities to make…
