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Bio-Medical Waste Essay

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Bio-Medical waste is the waste generated during diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human beings or animals, or in research activities or in the production or testing of biological equipments. Though 75-80% of waste generated from the hospital is non-infectious, 20-25% is hazardous. It poses a potential threat to health, worker, public, flora and fauna of the area.
1.1 Sources of generation of Bio-medical wastes
Hospitals, Healthcare Centre, Veterinary Hospitals, Dental Clinics, Pathological & Diagnostic Laboratories, Blood Bank is considered to be the source of Bio-Medical waste.
1.2. Type of Health Care Waste Infectious health care waste such as Human anatomical / surgical waste, Animal waste, Pathological waste including tissues, organs, blood and body fluids, microbiological cultures, Cotton, Swabs etc. Used Syringes, I.V. tubes, Blood bags and other items stained with blood and body fluids. Items such as plaster, casts and bandages, when infected by blood and pus. Waste from isolation wards and radioactive waste in liquid form from chemical or biological research, from body organ imaging, from cleansing of …show more content…

Effects of Bio-Medical waste
The dumping of Bio-Medical waste on landfill/open land mass cause severe land pollution. However during the process of Bio-Medical waste transfer, stagnation/leaching air and water environment also get …show more content…

Bio-Medical waste Management
The waste management structure consists of the whole set of activities related to handling, treating, disposing or recycling the waste materials. The idea of waste management system is to make sure that the waste materials are removed from the source or location where they are generated and treated, disposed of or recycled in a safe and proper manner. Modern waste management systems, which many developing country cities aspire to, are all characterized by high recycling rates of clean, source separated materials.
The waste management system consists of four main

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