HOSPITAL WASTE MANAGEMENT: A REVIEW

Abstract

Hospital waste management is a formal discipline and does occupy a critical place in the management of health care sector worldwide. The management of hospital waste requires its removal and disposal from the health care establishments as hygienically and economically as possible by methods that all stages minimizes the risk to public health and to environment also. The present scenario analysis of medical waste management systems was performed to grasp the varied handling and disposal procedures, the information and awareness of people concerned in medical waste generation, handling and disposal, and the potential impacts of the waste stream on both human health and the environment. A variety of ways were utilized by the medical facilities to dispose wastes as well as burning burial, entombing, selling, dumping, and removal by municipal bins. The waste disposal observe was found to be quite unsafe, and each clinical and non-clinical wastes were found to be thrown along. There was low awareness of the magnitude of the medical wastes issue by involved people at totally different levels from director or divisional head to waste pickers. There was no defense discovered in coping with waste disposal or laboratory analysis of infectious diseases. Medical waste incineration is one of the most identified and preferred disposal methods. It is necessary to signifies that there's an excellent potential to emit air cytotoxic pollutants from such incinerators if improperly operated and managed.