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BIOMEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT: A SMALL REVIEW.

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Dushshyant, Lalita Chopra, Shamli, Arul Prishya
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.s1-B.289

Abstract

Biomedical waste is a category that includes waste produced by companies, hospitals, and other healthcare facilities. Various pathogenic and dangerous materials make up this form of garbage. After then, this garbage is identified, divided, and handled scientifically. Healthcare workers irremissibly need to be knowledgeable about biomedical waste and its management and to have the right approach toward them. Infectious or possibly infectious waste, such as medical, research, or laboratory waste, may be created as solid or liquid waste. There is a good chance that improper handling of biomedical waste can infect healthcare employees, patients who use the facilities, and the neighborhood and community. General, pathological, radioactive, chemical, infectious, sharps and other categories are also suitable for biomedical waste. For the correct handling and management of biomedical waste, India has created rules. Every healthcare facility is required to follow all of the biomedical waste management rules necessary protections from guarantee whose services the management of Biomedical Waste has no associated impacts on people. This document consists of six schedules, including the category of biomedical waste, the color coding and kind of containers, and labels for biomedical waste containers or bags that must be legible and non-washable. A carriage of biomedical waste containers, standards in order to treat and discard, and timelines dumping trash treatment facilities that is incinerators and autoclaves are all included. The new rules implemented in India are the transportation, shift, and management of biomedical waste.

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