Hospital fined Tk 2.5 lakh

Staff Correspondent
Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined Al-Helal Specialised Heart Hospital in the city a sum of Tk 2.5 lakh for careless dumping of hospital waste causing environment pollution and health hazards to the public, said a press release yesterday. A team led by Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, DoE director (Monitoring and Enforcement), ordered the hospital authorities in Mirpur section 10 to remove all wastes in its vicinity and to keep the hospital drain and compound clean.