Hospitals in the Country Try To Go Green

According to the data obtained by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), hospitals have a highly significant amount of influence on their immediate and non immediate surroundings. Everything in a hospital, from the patient waste to medical equipments, to precautionary measures to biomedical waste, and from emissions to discharge, adds up to make the environment relatively unsafe. All this has led several hospitals to take into some serious consideration their way of running, and apply to themselves what is called now the Green Principle. There are several ways in which every hospital on the planet makes the environment around it a bit worse. 

Mercury usage in medical devices and equipments is one of the top factors in environmental degradation. Mercury poisoning is a very serious issue, and the discharge of mercury waste in nearby water bodies or garbage dumps results in serious and deadly soil and water poisoning. This can be prevented by either treating the mercuric waste before disposing it off, or shipping it to a reliable facility where it can be recycled or renewed for something else.

Another toxic example of the materials used is materials with potential toxic effects, like the ones used in pesticides or batteries. The toxicity of pesticides or battery acid is extremely high in nature, and even a little amount of exposure to these can harm entire ecosystems. 

Perhaps the most important of all these factors is the question of energy consumption. Hospitals run for twenty four hours, and consume a ridiculous amount of energy, whether it is in lighting equipment, air supply, or water usage. These things not only cause a serious energy problem for non renewable resources, but also increase the costs of patient care, which reflects in the enormous amounts of bills patients with chronic problems have to pay. All this can be prevented by using the Green Principle. Water is treated, recycled and reused. Some hospitals even have a water treatment facility to ensure that clean water is available for multiple uses and wastage and pollution is minimized. For air and light, many hospitals have now constructed their buildings in such a way that natural light and air is used as much as possible during the day time. All this has resulted in making hospitals cleaner, greener, and more energy efficient, while cutting down on patient costs and making them more affordable. 

Keeping in consideration all of the stuff discussed above, one of the best hospitals to consider which operates on the Green Principle is the Meditrina Insititute ofMedical Sciences. Situated at a prime location in Nagpur, this hospital, apart from being highly efficient and accessible to people all over the country and abroad, is one of the hospitals that has taken upon itself to go green. Optimum use of natural energy sources is one of the key factors of what Meditrina believes in. All toxic waste is treated or disposed off at reliable facilities. Patient costs have been cut down to envelope affordability. All this has truly put Meditrina on the International medical health care scene.

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