Special designed vehicle to collect the garbage from COVID-19 containment zones
Ferozepur, April 24, 2020: District Administration Ferozepur has come up with a multi-pronged strategy to collect and dispose of garbage from the COVID-19 containment zones as SDM Ferozepur Amit Gupta has launched a specially designed garbage collection vehicle on Friday.
Divulging the details, SDM Amit Gupta said that five sanitary workers of the municipal council were trained to collect and dispose of the garbage belonging to containment zones. He said that as per the state government's guidelines it was imperative to adopt such a strategy in terms of the waste collection so that further spread of this virus to the other areas could be prevented.
Whenever any Corona positive tested patient was found in an area that area was immediately declared as containment zone and therefore cordoned off as part of the protocol. Notably, none of the municipal areas were declared as containment zones so far, he added.
Gupta further added that according to the government's guidelines, the garbage from the containment zone will be treated as bio-medical waste and needs careful handling adding he said that such waste will either be disposed of at incineration facilities or be buried deep in the ground to eliminate the risk of virus spread through waste.
He said that the yellow color bags to be used to collect the garbage from a COVID-19 hit area adding he said that the special training was imparted to five sanitary workers in respect of collection and disposing of waste besides sensitizing them to use the PPE kits and other precautionary measures while working in a containment zone.
Gupta said that the staff and the special vehicles working in a containment zone will not be assigned to any other areas and these vehicles to be sprayed with disinfectants regularly. On the occasion EO Municipal Council Parminder Singh Sukhija, Sanitary Inspector Sukhpal Singh were Present.