King George’s Medical University is a world renowned medical institution in India in teaching, patient care and research activities. The Gandhi Memorial & Associated Hospitals has over 4500 functional beds.. Being a centre of excellence in tertiary level healthcare in the state, King George’s Medical University is also committed to improve environmental health including biomedical waste management in self-sustainable mode. Keeping this in mind, KGMU has initiated a bio medical waste management facility in 2009, through a Global Environment Facility-United Nation Development Program (GEF-UNDP) global health care waste management project. Under this , KGMU received a ‘Special Recognition Award’ in 2013 from United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) and World Health Organization (WHO), by Jack Weinberg, senior policy advisor, UNDP Global Healthcare Waste Management Project and Mrs. Payden, WHO South East Asia regional office at Lucknow in 2013. The achievement was also mentioned in Blue book of WHO in 2021 with the focus on Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

The Bio medical waste management committee was upgraded to University Environment Committee (UEC) and further to University Environment Department (UED) in October, 2015, by the Administration. The members are faculty members of different departments of KGMU in addition to their departmental work. It has core committee members and one designated nodal officer from each department.

Role of University Environment Department (UED) -

• To develop a robust mechanism of waste management including biomedical waste.
• To reduce carbon footprint by enhancing green cover of KGMU and harness solar power by installation of solar panels/parabolas.
• To provide hygienic and nutritious meals to patients: replace plastic plates with steel plates and different types of diet like diabetic diet, high protein diet, liquid diet etc.
• Teaching/training of University staff as well as State medical officers/quality managers.
• Vermicomposting to utilize horticulture waste as well as leftover food from the campus.
• Instrumental in getting Energy audit done in 2015-16 and again during the current year

UED MEMBERS

University Environment Department acknowledge the consistent support giving by core committee members, residents and supporting staff.

Departmental Nodal Officers