Manual for Healthcare Waste Generation and Management Practice.

      Аннотация: Healthcare facilities wish to reduce health problems and treatment of diseases. Healthcare waste is a by-product of healthcare facilities and may be called regulated infectious waste or biomedical waste, or clinical waste. Public health problems and their impact on the environment are frequently a consequence of inappropriate and inadequate handling and disposal of HCW. Incineration of HCW is a major contributor to the release of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), dioxins and furans into the environment. Therefore, the sound management of HCW is a crucial component of environmental health protection.

Ключевые слова: Segregation, Transportation, Storage, disposal, Medical waste, Healthcare waste, waste management, Infectious waste, anatomical waste, pharmaceutical waste, cytotoxic waste, chemical waste, radioactive waste, non-infectious waste