Abstract

A STUDY ON EFFECT OF HAZARDOUS HEALTH CARE WASTE GENERATION IN REWA, MADHYA PRADESH

*Rashmi Arnold

Abstract

Health care waste is defined as the total waste stream from a health care facility that includes both potential infectious waste and noninfectious waste materials. Infectious wastes include infectious sharps and infectious non-sharp materials. Infectious Sharps consist of syringe or other needles, blades, infusion sets, broken glass or other items that can cause direct injury. Infectious non-sharps include materials that have been in contact with human blood, or its derivatives, bandages, swabs or items soaked with blood, isolation wastes from highly infectious patients (including food residues), used and obsolete vaccine vials, bedding and other contaminated materials infected with human pathogens. Non-infectious wastes may include materials that have not been in contact with patients such as paper and plastic packaging, metal, glass or other wastes which are similar to household wastes.

Keywords: Health care wastes, Bio-medical wastes, hazardous and non-hazardous wastes, etc.