PHC orders closure of KTH incinerator after EPA report
Source: The News, Date: , 2017
Source: The News, July. Peshawar, July 8, 2017 :- The Peshawar High
Court (PHC) has directed the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) management to close
incinerator till the next order after receiving Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)'s report that it was creating air pollution. A bench comprising Chief Justice
Yahya Afridi and Justice Abdul Shakoor passed the direction after receiving
report from the EPA about the steps taken by the hospitals for disposal of
medical waste. On the previous hearing, the court had directed the EPA Director
General, Dr Bashir Khan, to inspect all the government and private hospitals of
the provincial metropolis and submit a detailed report about the steps taken
for disposal of the waste.