Laljee

I have a long experience of providing consultancy on hospital waste management, as well as on solid waste management to companies, governments, and UNICEF supported projects. CV appended below: CV (Condensed): Air Mshl (Dr) L K Verma, AVSM (Retd) Career profile & Experience • Service with Indian Air Force (Armed Forces Medical Services) at the field & staff level for about four decades. Important assignments included Additional Dir Gen Armed Forces Medical Services (rank Air Vice Marshal), and Director General Medical Services of the Air Force (rank - Air Marshal). Awarded Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) by the President of India (2001). • In Service courses: Aviation Medicine Courses (1964 & 1968), Junior Medical Officers’ Course (1965), Senior Medical Officers’ Course (1969), Defence Services Staff Course (1974), NBC Warfare Course for Senior Officers (1993). Medical Officers’ Courses included training on inventory control, quality assurance, supply chain management (including drugs and pharmaceutical forecasting, quality verification, and inventory management and maintenance) etc. Conferences & Affiliations • Founding President-‘Indian Society of Hospital Waste Management’ (ISHWM) www.medwasteind.org • Active participant in National & International conferences and seminars etc in India & Abroad, on environmental and healthcare waste management issues; and national and International Aviation Medicine Conferences. • Resource person for WHO-SEARO for conferences/ workshops in India & SEA Region Countries – Bangladesh and Nepal. • Invited Keynote speaker, Working Group on Health Care Waste Management, ISWA, Rome, Italy, third week of Oct 2004. • Invited as a Plenary Guest speaker, annual conference of College of Microbiology, Colombo, Sri Lanka September 13 – 14, 2007. • Invited speaker at many conferences in India – Thiruvananthapuram, Ahmedabad, IMA-Goa, CMC Vellore, SPCB, Bhuvneshwar, etc. • Conducted a two -day workshop as a resource person on biomedical waste management at the NRHM, Assam, Guwahati – 4th - 5th April 2008, • Member/Life Member of many Scientific Associations such as Academy of Hospital Administration, Consultancy Development Centre, IIC etc. • Former Member International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), and member HCWWG, • Adviser STG Publishers, Alexandria, Egypt • Reviewer ‘Waste Management’ – Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands • On Editorial Board of International Journal of Integrative Biology, Yarmouk University, Jordan. • Additional Reviewer, International Conferences on Education and Information Systems, Technologies, and Applications: EISTA 2008, 2009, 2010. • Reviewer, ‘Waste Management and Research’ Official journal of ISWA. • Tele-interviewed by many national and international (UK and USA) organisations and institutions on biomedical waste management and environmental protection. Publications Chapters, Reports and Books: Chapters: (a) Prepared Policy Guidelines for Hospital Waste Management in the Armed Forces based on which Joint Services Guidelines was Published (JSG No – 0553: 1999) Reports: (b) Final Report WHO Pilot Project: laying down Hospital Waste Management System at the Air Force Hospital, Bangalore – 1999 – 2000. (c) Report to the Department of Health, Govt of NCT of Delhi, on biomedical waste incinerator near SUKHDEV VIHAR, a resident colony in New Delhi – January 2008. Books: (d) “Managing Healthcare Waste- a Practical Approach” Knowledge World (2007): ISBN 81- 87966- 61-0. (e) Environment and Human Health, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany (2013), ISBN: 978-3-659-35137-2. (f) Indians in Mirror View of a Common Man The Aam Aadmi, Author’s Empire, 2013, ISBN 9788192648040. Its Chapters are: a. Visionary Indian, b. Political Indian, c. Bureaucratic Indian, d. Scientific Indian, e. (Un) Healthy Indian, f. Religious Indian g. Reflections. (g) Karma its Applicability and Relevance in Day-to-Day Life, Leadstart Publishing, (2016), ISBN: 978-93-52016-14-3. (h) Other Literary Works -Four books of Hindi Poetry, one book of Hindi Play, and One anthology of English Poems an epic poem in English, “Womb of Time”, A book on “Selfish Mind, Slavish Body, A Quest into Selg-identity” published by Hay House Publishers. Recipient of ‘Premchand Smriti Puraskar’ for contribution to Hindi Literature. Papers & Articles: More than a dozen papers and articles on waste management and environmental issues in national and international journals. Active on Facebook, Twitter, and Speaking Tree. Projects Undertaken: 1. WHO aided pilot project to lay down Hospital Waste Management System in a hopsital -1999 to Y2K. Completed successfully and final report submitted in Jun, 2001. 2. DRDO Project to study mutagenic effects in hospital waste. Project completed in 2002. 3. WHO-IGNOU Collaborative Project to develop Certificate Training Programme for SEA Region Countries – July 2004 to April 2005. 4. DST project under USERS Scheme to write a monograph on hospital waste management – July 2004 (HR/UR/2003). Project completed and a book – “Managing Healthcare Waste – a Practical Approach” published in 2007. ISBN: 81-87966-61-0. 5. Consultant with PPG, DFID aided Project for Procurement Capacity Assessment of Medical Service Organization – RCH II. Project completed and report submitted. 6. Consultant with PPG on World Bank aided Project – NACP III- March 2006 to May 2007. Project completed and report submitted. 7. Appointed Chairman ‘SUKHDEV VIHAR’ Committee by Govt of NCT of Delhi – Dec 07 to January 08 to look into complaints of the residents on health concerns allegedly caused by a nearby bio-medical incinerator. Report finalized and submitted. 8. Conducted external audit of 10 identified hospitals of Delhi on waste management – practice and technlogy - a Delhi Govt project Sep 2008 to March 2009. Project completed and a report rendered. 9. Organised annual conferences – ISHWM Con 2010 at Delhi on 30th and 31st Oct 2010. 10. Consultant to Voyants Solution Pvt Ltd in a UNICEF supported project to strengthen biomedical waste management in 5 District Hospitals in the state of Jharkhand, India. The project was completed, and report submitted within the specified time (2012). 11. Currently researching on Deficiencies in Healthcare Delivery and Health Education in India, and remedies. Patent: Food Waste Management Machines – VEGMA FOODSTER MK I & II. Updated –May 09, 2023