Kathmandu, Jan. 17 -- The practice of burning, burying and disposing of hazardous immunisation waste mixing up it with the municipal waste by private hospitals has continued unabated, a report published by the Ministry of Health and Population shows.

The study, "Assessment of Immunisation Services in the Private Sector in Kathmandu Valley", carried out by a consortium of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Johns Hopkins University, John Snow Institute and the Health Ministry, shows that health facilities in Kathmandu Valley have been jeopardising environment as well as public health by defying the rules that prohibit burning, burying and disposing of hazardous immunisation waste with the municipal waste.

"Burning and bu...