An inspection covering the first half of 2026 found that several Tashkent clinics had mixed hazardous medical waste with household rubbish.
The waste was taken to ordinary landfills or dumped at unauthorized locations instead of being sent for safe disposal.
Sayar green is implementing a $115 million investment project to process such waste. Medical institutions, however, are supplying the company with only part of their hazardous waste.
Two facilities in Tashkent can process 12 tonnes a day but receive only about 3 tonnes. The equipment is therefore operating at just 25% of capacity.
The city’s medical institutions generated 3,239.05 cubic metres of collected waste over six months. Clinical Hospital No. 16 accounted for 1,795.40 cubic metres, Infectious Diseases Hospital No. 3 for 445.44, and the Virology Research Institute clinic for 382 cubic metres.
Violations were also found at five other institutions, including a children’s phthisiology centre, the city branch of the Dermatovenereology Centre and two specialist hospitals.
Action is being taken against those responsible. Similar inspections of medical institutions are continuing across all regions of Uzbekistan.
