LARKANA, March 9: An incinerator installed in the Chandka Medical College Hospital has gone out of order for 30 days. Initially, the machine had developed a fault which its product manager had removed. However, the engineer had told the hospital management that the incinerator required more than six pounds gas pressure for its three huge burners to burn the hospital waste.

The current gas pressure in the hospital is about two pounds which is not sufficient even for a single burner.

Due to the incinerator being out of order hospital waste has accumulated which can lead to spread of diseases as the waste is being thrown in the open.

The hospital medical superintendent in a letter to the Sui Southern Gas Company has requested to enhance the gas supply pressure but the hospital management is awaiting a response from the company.

The hospital management charges one extra rupee from indoor patients to meet the cost of the incinerator operation and collect hospital waste from the five blocks of the hospital which are located at five difference places in the city.

The incinerator operator or its in-charge has not been trained either by suppliers or by the hospital administration how to run and maintain the Rs6.5 million machine. They are prone to infection.

Empty drips, disposable syringes, bottles and blood pints are not sent to the incinerator for disposal but are sold in the market through sanitary workers of the hospital. The in-charge of the incinerator had brought into the notice of the MS that this waste was not being sent for disposal but no action has been taken.