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Recent Trends in Bio-Medical Waste, Challenges and Opportunities
Published in K. Gayathri Devi, Kishore Balasubramanian, Le Anh Ngoc, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques for Medical Science, 2022
Most hospitals lack cost-effective methods to dispose of clinical waste, despite the fact that only a few large hospitals employ innovative treatments or contract to the commercial sector. The goal of this page is to provide readers with an overview of medical waste management, including medical waste definitions, exposure issues, medical waste management procedures, and control mechanisms. One of the main issues with current biological waste management in many hospitals is the lack of compliance with Bio-Trash laws, since some facilities dispose of trash in a haphazard, wasteful, and thoughtless manner.
Management of Radioactive Waste in Nuclear Medicine
Published in Michael Ljungberg, Handbook of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for Physicists, 2022
The management of radioactive waste from medical applications is guided by international recommendations and regulated by regional and national authorities. The organization and regulations may vary in different countries due to the national legal framework, but the purpose is the same – to minimize a negative impact of the waste in all aspects. The local organization, management, and regulations must state that the procedures of the waste management comply with national and international standards and regulations. Safe management of radioactive waste is based on an organization with a clear allocation of responsibilities and provision of independent regulatory functions.
Public Health Risks Posed by Waste Pollution and Chemical Exposure and Legal Responses in International and EU Law
Published in Stefania Negri, Environmental Health in International and EU Law, 2019
Thanks to the next United Nations Conferences on the environment, the sound management of waste became an essential component of the protection of the environment, human health and sustainable development. Then, the diversification of types of waste (toxic, hazardous, solid, radioactive waste) confirmed the need to put in place different strategies for proper waste management in terms of a general reduction of pollution.11 There are, in fact, different types of waste, but all produce a negative impact on human health and the environment, if they are not managed soundly.12 In other words, waste is a problem that cannot be eliminated, but must be managed according to specific disposal operations. These are, on the one hand, the operations directed to eliminate the toxic substances that cannot be used in the future in order to avoid that these can cause damage to the environment and human health; on the other hand, the operations which may lead to resource, recovery, recycling reclamation, direct re-use or alternative uses.13
Application of total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) for analysis of barriers influencing healthcare waste management sector: A case study
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2023
This paper is focused on the importance of the healthcare waste management sector. Barriers influencing HCWM are being identified through literature review and expert opinions, and the TISM model is being constructed. The model shows the leading and lagging relationship between different factors. These barriers are the main obstacles to health care waste management performance. Top authorities must be supportive and have good government policies that promote proper health care waste management. Training and awareness programs must be organized at the hospital level to enhance the knowledge of workers and staff, which are some leading factors. Health care waste management must be on the priority list of all hospitals so that enough employees must be assigned to manage waste correctly. These barriers have significant implications on society, so proper implementation of healthcare waste management requires eliminating these barriers. We believe that our study is timely and has practical implications. In the future, more studies are possible by considering more Barriers, and the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach can be used to validate the interrelationship among barriers. So this study can be considered a significant step in research related to barriers in the Healthcare waste management sector.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics: access, excess, and awareness in Bangladesh
Published in Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 2021
In Bangladesh, untreated medical waste often accumulates at landfills, posing a threat to public health. Although official data is unavailable, it is estimated that in seven divisional cities, excluding the capital, Dhaka, over 20 tons of medical waste are produced every day from around 1,380 healthcare establishments, both public and private [49]. A recent study in another city, Khulna, found that the hazardous waste was not treated separately from other waste materials in most healthcare facilities [50], although the Medical Waste (Management and Processing) Rules 2008 states that ‘medical wastes cannot be mixed with other wastes at any stage – while producing inside hospitals, while collecting from hospitals, while transporting, and will be processed separately based on classification.’ Also, over half of the workers who handle hazardous waste did not receive proper training, and most did not use safety equipment or clothing. In fact, most government hospitals do not yet have standard infrastructures for dealing with medical waste [51].
Medical waste management – how industry can help us to protect environment and money?
Published in Renal Failure, 2020
Paweł Żebrowski, Jacek Zawierucha, Tomasz Prystacki, Wojciech Marcinkowski, Jolanta Małyszko
Medical waste management has become a serious problem. During every hemodialysis session more than 1 kg of medical waste are produced. Part of them are recognized as the infectious waste (waste contaminated with blood and other bodily fluids), according to the World Health Organization [1]. Dialyzers, bloodlines, needles are the most important hazardous waste. They should be properly stored and destroyed. On the basis on projection made by Liyanage et al. [2] in 2010 more than 2.61 million patients were treated with dialysis (both, peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis) and will double in 2030. The majority of the patients are treated with hemodialysis mode [3]. It shows that about 2.7 million patients get the 156 hemodialyses annually. During 420 millions HD sessions worldwide yearly more than 420 million kg of medical waste are produced. Waste incineration of such big mass has a significant impact on the environment as well as the cost of the treatment. The cost of destroying medical waste is growing almost every day – due to the more restrictive requirements for Waste Disposal Services, costs of energy used for incineration, etc. In the European countries the cost of utilization of 1 kg of medical waste is about 3 Euro [4]. In this study, we assessed the weight of different dialyzers available on the Polish market. The dialyzer weight is the heaviest part of dialysis set influencing significantly the cost of utilization of hazardous medical waste.