PCSIR develops indigenous incinerators

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) is the first Pakistani organization to develop indigenous incinerators of world standard.
WHO also recommends the incineration method for disposing off the hospital-waste. USA and other European countries have developed environmentally safe incinerators but these are very expensive for a country like Pakistan. PCSIR has developed the incinerators with about80 percent locally available material and workmanship and at a remarkably low price when compared to the imported incinerators.
So far six hospitals all around the country have been provided with incineration facility with up to 100kg per hour burning capacity. The performance of these incinerators has been up to the desired standards. A total of 12 incinerators will be produced in two years and the project will cost Rs39.75 million.
The production of 75 incinerators over the next five years is also planned. Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Nauraiz Shakoor Khan has expressed the hope that the project will help in reducing environmental degradation in the country.
The improper disposal of hospital waste can have potentially disastrous effect on public health as diseases like AIDS and hepatitis can easily spread from such negligence. The government is intensifying its efforts to curb the menace of hospital waste by introducing state of the art technology.—INP