Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has embarked on a massive sanitation process at Gandhi Hospital aimed at providing a cleaner environment to the public, civic body officials said.
Gandhi Hospital is named Covid hospital in Hyderabad and several areas within the hospital were allegedly neglected for several years, making it a landfill. Now, with the cleaning of the landfills, the officials have made it a waiting area for servants who are not allowed inside Covid ward.
According to an official from the GHMC, the sanitation project was taken up to provide a clean environment and premises to the public.
Officials said that in addition to a large number of sanitary workers deployed to collect and lift the garbage, at least ten vehicles of six tons and 25 tons capacity were put into service.
According to Srinivas Reddy, GHMC Zonal Commissioner, Secunderabad, nearly 500 tonnes of waste was lifted and transferred to the Jawaharnagar MSW plant and Jeedimetla and Fathullaguda C&D plants during the sanitation. The waste consisted mostly of garbage, green waste and old hospital beds. At least a hundred trips have been undertaken to clean up the rubbish and rubbish, he said.
In addition, relief was also taken up at the hospital and trees were also planted to make it clean and green.
Arvind Kumar, general secretary, municipal administration and urban development, monitored the sanitation project and instructed officials to make additional arrangements, such as shelter for patients.
Source: The Siasat Daily