Even though the “Hospital waste management rules 2005” notified by the Federal Government of Pakistan under the Environmental Protection act 1997 clearly state that a proper storage facility should be present in the hospitals and the WMO should oversee the correct
use of such a facility and ensure correct method of transportation of waste, it was found that daily monitoring by the WMO was done in only 40% of the cases. Also, a central storage facility was found in only 53% of the hospitals and recording of waste 29,30 transportation was done in only 47% of the cases