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The ruling United Democratic Front successful Kalamassery municipality has passed a solution protesting alleged lapses successful the absorption of discarded generated astatine the Govt. Medical College Hospital, Ernakulam.
The resolution, which was passed astatine the assembly gathering held connected Thursday, blamed the infirmary absorption for not taking indispensable measures successful ensuring due discarded absorption arsenic per the directives issued by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board.
The gaps successful discarded absorption volition beryllium brought to the announcement of Health Minister K. Muraleedharan, and Ernakulam District Collector G. Priyanka, said Ansar Thoreth, councillor of HMT Estate ward, who moved the resolution. The assembly gathering besides demanded a vigilance probe into the alleged corruption and amerciable appointments successful the infirmary implicit the past fewer years. It entrusted Jamal Manakkadan, chairperson of the civic body, to taxable a petition earlier the authorities and V. E Abdul Ghafoor, Minister for Fisheries and MLA of Kalamassery, seeking a vigilance probe, helium said.
The ruling councillors recalled that the Kerala State Pollution Control Board, which inspected the infirmary field successful February 2026, had recovered that ample fig of integrative bags containing coagulated waste, including biodegradable waste, insubstantial and integrative were dumped successful the parking area. The bureau besides recovered that earthen pits had been dug and coagulated discarded dumped for burial. In its reply, the infirmary absorption had past said that an bureau had been appointed done a tendering process to transport the waste. It besides claimed that the regular discarded generated connected the field is being transported regularly.
The Left beforehand councillors opposed the resolution, alleging that it lacked clarity connected who is liable for the lapses successful discarded management. The solution besides failed to sanction immoderate authoritative oregon idiosyncratic liable for it, said K.T. Manoj, Communist Party of India (Marxist) councillor. Dr. Ganesh Mohan, superintendent of the aesculapian college, did not remark connected the allegations.
