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Practice Organization and Management
Published in John Fry, Nat Yuen, Principles and Practice of Primary Care and Family Medicine: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, 2018
Handling biomedical waste can be hazardous, so it is the duty of the doctor to ensure that staff handling such waste are fully instructed. There should be clear procedures on segregating and storing waste, and on what to do in case of spillage, and clear reporting and record-keeping of injuries and sharps accidents. Such injuries and accidents should be treated according to standard medical principles. Protective equipment and handwashing facilities should be provided for staff handling waste, and immunization against hepatitis B should be offered to such personnel, as well as keeping their tetanus, diphtheria and polio status up-to-date.
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
The majority of the garbage created by health care facilities is non-hazardous trash (about 85%). It consists of food scraps, paper cartons, packing materials, fruit peels, and wash water, among other things. At different times over the years, the term “potentially contagious garbage” has been used in scientific literature, guideline manuals, and guidelines for infectious waste. Medical waste that is infectious, dangerous, red bagged, or contaminated, as well as regulated and non-controlled medical waste, are all instances. Although the designations used in legislation are usually more precise, they all relate to the same kind of trash [1–5]. Waste collects and is kept in the areas and stages between the point of garbage generation and the point of waste treatment and disposal. While accumulation refers to the temporary storage of small quantities of trash at the point of production, waste storage refers to lengthy storage periods and large waste volumes. A majority of the time, storage facilities are close to where the garbage is collected. Biomedical waste is described as “any solid or liquid waste, including its container and any intermediate product, generated during the diagnosis, treatment, or immunisation of people or animals.” Biological waste is generated in a variety of settings, including hospitals; nursing homes; clinics; laboratories; physicians, dentists, and veterinarian offices; home health care; and funeral homes. It must be treated with caution in order to safeguard the general public, especially healthcare and sanitation workers who are frequently exposed to biological waste as a job hazard. As a consequence, little study has been done on infection transmission via medical waste. According to the American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control, medical waste disposal must adhere to strict guidelines. Any health care management approach must include appropriate waste processing, treatment, and disposal. Protecting health care personnel, patients, and the surrounding community is easier with the right strategy [6–10].
Situational Assessment of Functional Elements, Practices Adopted & Concerns Related to Bio Medical Waste Management in City of Pune, India
Published in Hospital Topics, 2020
Meenal Kulkarni, Rajiv Yeravdekar
The term “biomedical waste” has been defined as “any” waste that is generated during diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals, or in the research activities pertaining to or in the production or testing of biologicals and includes categories mentioned in schedule I of the Government of India’s Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 1998.” Biomedical waste is hazardous which affects the environment of any community (Chandorkar 2008). As per the World Health Organization (WHO), only 20% of the total healthcare waste is infectious or poses the risk of injury and is hazardous to human beings (Chudasama et al. 2013; INCLEN Program Evaluation Network (IPEN) Study Group, New Delhi, India 2014). However, this very 20% of the waste requires more attention in terms of collection, segregation and disposal. Improper segregation converts the noninfectious waste into hazardous waste. It contains potentially harmful microorganisms that can infect hospital patients, health-care workers, and the public.
A study on the factors that influence the agility of COVID-19 hospitals
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2021
M. Suresh, A. Roobaswathiny, S. Lakshmi Priyadarsini
Biomedical waste management emphasizes the right way to handling the disposal of bio-waste because it should not become another source of infection for someone and not pollute the environment. This includes appropriate disposal of cadavers, syringe, needles, absorbent cotton pads, band aids, face masks, etc. The main challenge is to scientifically manage infectious biomedical waste from Covid care beyond past practices. Most of the biomedical wastes collected from Covid care are infectious and carefully disposed of using the incineration process [20]. The responsibility of the hospital authorities is to dispose the rapidly increasing bio-medical waste and to protect the environment and the health of the community [21].
Comparative analysis of cost of biomedical waste management across varying bed strengths in rural India
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2018
Brayal Carry D'Souza, Arun Mavaji Seetharam, Varalakshmi Chandrasekaran, Rajesh Kamath
In general biomedical waste contains non-infectious waste and infectious waste. As regards to the category wise percentage of waste generation, non-infectious waste is 80%, pathological and infectious waste 15%, sharps 1%, chemical or pharmaceutical waste 3% and others 1%.9