Projects Completed Projects: -   Air Mshl Lalji K Verma, AVSM (Retd) founding President of ISHWM was allotted a pilot project to lay down a system of BMW management in one of the defence hospitals by the WHO (India) during the biennium - 1999 to 2000. Air Force Hospital at Bangalore was selected for the project. Multi-option approach was applied, and the project was one of the forerunners of BMW management in the country. Report to the WHO was submitted in the year 2001.       Air Mshl Lalji K Verma, AVSM (Retd), Founding President, ISHWM was allotted a DRDO project to study mutagenic effects in the hospital waste. A study with was carried out at the Air Force Hospital B' lore with Wg Cdr Palat Menon (a renowned microbiologist). The study revealed possibility of mutation in the bacterial flora contained in the hospital waste. Further studies are required.       Vermicomposting of hospital waste was undertaken at the B'lore hospital as an internal project funded by Air Hq. The project was useful to bring out the fact that vermicomposting of infected bio degradable was possible without causing any adverse environmental effects such as producing spores etc. End product possibly has soil enriching quality, and could be used as manure. A scientific paper has been published (Journal of ISHAM, Vol 5 Issue 1 April 2006.     Ongoing Project: -   Dept of Health Govt of NCT of Delhi has granted a project to ISHWM to carry out External Audit of BMW Mangament, system and technologies in 10 major govt controlled hospitals in Delhi. The project has been started in September, 2008. Likely to conclude by the end of March 2009.