Sewerage plant at SMS Hospital soon

: The Sawai Man Singh (SMS) hospital in Jaipur, the biggest government-run healthcare facility of the state, will soon have a sewerage treatment plant (STP), an official said.

SMS Medical College principal Dr US Agarwal said “The STP will be set up soon at the hospital in which wastewater will be treated and reused for other purposes.”

“It will save huge quantity of water in the hospital.”

The process for setting up the STP has been initiated and by the financial year, it will become operational, he said on Thursday.

Dr BP Meena, nodal officer, biomedical waste (BMW) at the SMS hospital, said according to the BMW policy, at present, and wastewater in the hospital is being treated with hypochlorite and then drained into the sewer.

The Biomedical Waste Management Amended Rules, 2018, states that every hospital having 10 or more beds should have a STP and it has to be set up within two years.

Meena further said that the hospital drains out 3,000 kilolitres per day of wastewater, which highly infected water that comes from laboratories, operation theatres and intensive care units (ICUs) of the hospital.

The SMS hospital has three laboratories, 18 ICUs and 16 operation theatres and water from these places amount to 1,000 KLD. If the infected wastewater after treatment at the STP is found not fit for use, it will be drained out into the sewer,, Meena said.

JAIPUR