Lack of awareness among the stakeholders is the rule of the land today. The pressure groups, which should be drawn from the stakeholders like health care personnel, NGOS, General public and pourakarmikas, is non existent due to this fact. And the reason for the Govt.'s ineffectiveness to deal with the situation is largely due to the fact that - there is no registration of healthcare institutions. It is implementable and very practical. However, there is a lack of will on the part of the generators and the authorities in implementing it.
Financial constraint is also a major crux.
Hospital Waste Management is also not exempt from corruption. Although the technologies for management of hospital waste are available in India, the awareness among the authorities on this is very minimal. As a result, most often we end up using interior technologies. There are serious communication gaps and the hospital authorities end up investing huge amounts for an inferior technology. Among the practices adopted in hospital waste management, segregation at source is not practiced as per regulations.