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By Hemant Kumar Rout; 03/02/2012; Source: Express Buzz
Balasore, February 2, 2012: The injections, which you take hoping that it would cure you of diseases might just prove fatal. In Balasore district headquarters hospital crystal-like substances and fungus were found floating in a couple of life saving injections stocked there. More shocking is that the injections have two more years of shelf-life. The crystal-like substances were found in Mannitol, an intravenous injection administered to high blood pressure or haematoma patients.
02/02/2012; Source: The Hindu
Kozhikode, February 1, 2012: The State Assembly committee on environment has called for a report from the District Collector on environmental problems stemming from the levelling of hills and conversion of paddy fields in the district.
By R Vasundara; 31/01/2012; Source: Times of India
Chennai, January 30, 2012: Fear of exposure to radiation from scrap or medical waste may soon be a thing of the past. The central government will set up mobile radiation detection systems in 35 major cities across the country.
By Neetu Chandra; 30/01/2012; Source: Daily Mail
New Delhi, January 29, 2012: Government hospitals in the Capital are turning a blind eye to the hazards of bio-medical waste by either casually dumping the untreated waste despite expensive incinerators installed at the hospital or outsourcing the work to private agencies.
By Stuti Shukla; 30/01/2012; Source: Indian Express
Mumbai, January 29, 2012: Effluents and toxic fumes from factories and refineries and high concentration of vehicles on roads, besides the Deonar dumping grounds (now partially closed) contribute to pollution in Chembur, one of the most polluted suburbs in the commercial capital of the country. A joint survey by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and IIT-Delhi conducted in December 2009 had placed Chembur on the top half of the list of 88 most polluted industrial clusters in the country.
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