Command Hospital Air Force, Bangalore was the first Defence hospital to setup their own biomedical waste incinerator facility in the year 2000....
Command Hospital Air Force, Bangalore was the first Defence hospital to setup their own biomedical waste incinerator facility in the year 2000. This was based on the then Bio-medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 1998 prevailing at that time. Command Hospital, Bangalore is a premier teaching hospital of the Indian Airforce, combining health care with teaching and training of medical officers, nurses, nursing officials, paramedical staff and PG students.
Command Hospital has 830 beds with 120 doctors and close to 500 nurses and nursing assistants.
We contacted the hospital authorities and made a presentation to them with our PD model incinerator.
They wanted to establish a complete medical waste treatment facility including not only the incinerator but also a hydroclave. The hydroclave was out of our product range and hence we offered only the incinerator part with a scrubber and 30 m chimney.
Considering the quality of Haat incinerators as well as the price, they chose model PD-6 and in consultation with the Air Force Headquarters (the prescribed authority for Defence healthcare establishments as per the Biomedical waste rules is the DGAFMS – Director General Armed Force Medical Services), they placed an order for the system. This was supplied, installed, commissioned and detailed training given to the operators for a week.
Many defence hospitals followed suit subsequently and we are very proud to be associated with the Armed Forces because something like 30+ military hospitals set up incinerators of different configurations. These include the Army, Navy and Air Force. The locations for these incinerators cover the entire country from the North to the South and from the East to the West and the list extends from Punjab to Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, M.P to Meghalaya and West Bengal. Apart from the mainland, the Andaman and Nicobar islands also have 3 installations.
This impressive list shows the trust the country’s Defence Forces medical fraternity have in Haat when it comes to providing solutions for disposal of hospital waste by incineration.
It is interesting to note that the incinerator unit supplied to Command Hospital has been operating now for nearly 20 years!
Today, Haat’s incineration technology has grown by leaps and bounds and Haat offers fully automatic incinerators with Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems complying with CPCB’s ‘Guidelines for Bio-medical Waste Incinerator, 2017’.
“We have received good services from Haat, particularly in accommodating site installation requirements and customer requests, whether specified in the tender or not.” - Christian L, MD of Steamhouse International, Mauritius.
