NUWAKOT, AUGUST 28
Trishuli Hospital in Nuwakot has started producing energy from the waste generated by the hospital. The bio-degradable waste from the hospital has been used to produce energy (methane gas) through a biogas plant.
Chief of the hospital Dr Dipendra Pandey said a biogas plant with a capacity of 40 cubic metres had been brought into operation with the help of the Bagmati provincial government.
The plant costs Rs 800,000. Placenta from the delivery room, human body parts during surgery, food waste from patients and visitors, etc, have been disposed of in a plant built on the hospital premises.
The fuel produced by the plant has been enough to be used for cooking food for 15 people living in the doctor's quarter.
Chairperson of the Hospital Development and Management Committee Raju Pandit said that the operation of the plant had solved the problem of disposing of hospital-related waste, control communicable diseases that may be caused by waste while fuel production has reduced hospital expenses.
The goal is now to increase the range of energy production and sell it to the hospital's canteen, he added.
Prior to this, the hospital had been paying Rs 1,500 on monthly basis to dispose of the waste produced by the hospital. Along with the construction of a plant for waste disposal, water facilities have been improved by constructing deep boring.
In terms of minimum service standards, Trishuli Hospital received 83 points in the fiscal year 20202-21 among the government hospitals in the country.
In the year 2021-22, it was declared the best hospital in the country with 94 points.
A version of this article appears in the print on August 29, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.
