NRS to take steps against campus littering
Kolkata: In a unique initiative, NRS Medical College and Hospital authorities have decided to take steps against those who litter the hospital campus.
The hospital has already started a comprehensive awareness campaign against littering of the hospital premises through various posters. According to a hospital official, people are often found smoking and spitting gutkha at various places in the hospital. It has become a nuisance.
To keep the hospital premises clean, NRS Hospital authorities have launched a 'Clean and Green' campaign this month in an attempt to make
the patients and their family members aware about the ill effects of littering hospital.
NRS is not the only hospital which faces this problem but all other government hospitals face the same, where a section of people smoke, spit Gutkha and other tobacco products inside the campus.
During a meeting conducted by Rogi Kalyan Samiti at NRS Medical College and Hospital, it was decided that steps would be taken to check such nuisance inside the campus.
Deputy Superintendent of NRS Medical College and Hospital, Dwaipayan Biswas said: "We have started an environment awareness programme in the hospital. Those who are coming to the hospital with plastic bags have been given environment-friendly bags.
The Fair Price Medicine shops and
other shops which run through PPP model are also giving environment-friendly bags to the patients and their relatives."
Dr Biswas added: "Apart from putting up banners at various places inside the hospital, announcements are being made through the public address system to prevent people from littering. A big pond situated inside the hospital has been renovated and benches and lights have been installed around the pond as a part of the beautification drive."
Those who are found smoking or spitting inside the hospital are being urged by the staff members of the hospital not to indulge in this practice. In many cases, the relatives of the patients are littering the hospital premises.
To check such incidents, the hospital authorities are planning that they would take back the visiting cards of the patients' relatives who are found littering the area.
The hospital authorities are considering imposition of fines on those who would indulge in such practices. The final decision is yet to be taken.
