Quantification and Charecterization of Bio-Medical Waste at Satna City M.P. India

Abstract

Hospitals are a place where patient's problems are designed, analyzed and treated. During these activities generation of solid waste is unavailable. This solid waste describe with the term "hospital waste" refer to all waste, biological or non-biological that is discarded and will never be used again. Hospital waste consists of mainly three group waste: medical waste, infections waste and domestic waste. "Medical waste" refers to materials accumulated as a result of patient diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human being. "Infection waste" refers to the portion of medical waste that is in contact with a patient who has infections disease and it is capable of producing an infection disease. Most of the time medical waste is considered to be infectious waste. If all the waste is mixed then the hospital waste is presumed to be infectious waste. Hospital waste has not attracted the attention as other type of wastes, particular in developing countries, despite the fact that the medical waste is labeled as hazardous because it poses serious and direct threat to human health.