‘Pakistan's waste management crisis: A threat to public health'
IV Report KARACHI: A seminar organised at the University of Karachi (KU) has emphasised that a collective failure of communities and government functionaries concerned in addressing the management issues of solid waste, including medical and hospital refusals, was causing diseases to the population. In his special address at the seminar, KU Vice Chancellor Prof Khalid Mahmood Iraqi noted that inadequate management of solid waste was contributing not only to environmental adversities and aesthetics in major cities across Pakistan but also serving as disease breeding source. Despite passage of time, the country does not have a proper system for disposing of medical waste in most hospitals in Pakistan, he said, stressing adequate and scientific disposal system for hospital waste, which is often found in regular trash dumps, posing significant dangers to human health. Experts from academic and managerial backgrounds attended the "Sustainable Solid Waste Management" semina...