Hospital wastes, also known as medical waste is all waste materials generated at health care facilities, such as hospitals, clinics, physician's offices, dental practices, blood banks, and veterinary hospitals/clinics, as well as medical research facilities and laboratories.
Health-care activities, protect and restore health and save lives. But what about the wastes and by-products they generate? Of the total amount of waste generated by health-care activities, about 80% is general waste comparable to domestic waste. The remaining 20% is considered hazardous material that may be infectious, toxic or radioactive.
Types of waste:
Infectious waste: Waste contaminated with blood and its by-products, cultures and stocks of infectious agents, waste from patients in isolation wards, discarded diagnostic samples containing blood and body fluids, infected animals from laboratories, and contaminated materials (swabs, bandages) and equipment (such as disposable medical devices).
Pathological waste: Recognizable body parts and contaminated animal carcasses.
Sharps: Syringes, needles, disposable scalpels and blades, etc.
Chemicals: For example mercury, solvents and disinfectants.
Pharmaceuticals: Expired, unused, and contaminated drugs; vaccines and sera.
Genotoxic waste: Highly hazardous, mutagenic, teratogenic1 or carcinogenic, such as cytotoxic drugs used in cancer treatment and their metabolites.
Radioactive waste: Such as glassware contaminated with radioactive diagnostic material or radiotherapeutic materials.
Heavy metals waste: Such as broken mercury thermometers.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs253/en/
-Adrian Wong
After reading this I realised,that business, hospitals, and individuals create thousands of tons of waste every day. Thiswaste pollutes the land and water and can cause health problems in humans and animals if not managed effectively.
ReplyDelete---> Waste management solutions attempt to reduce the negative effects of waste. And....Commonwaste management solutions include collecting waste in dumps and landfills, recycling, and decreasing overall wasteproduction.
Waste management solutions focus on waste that has already been created. And I think the strategy is to decrease the overall production of waste. That means encouraging people to use only what they need and not to throw as much away.
Wew @@ Hospitals are also killing people while saving their lives... GOOD way to earn money Lolz xD
ReplyDeleteHospital wastes would affect not only the environment,but people,animals & plants as well!!
ReplyDeleteWao! I didnt heard of hospital waste before ! It is terrible to find out this ! The waste in hospital is also more dangerous than other wastes !
ReplyDeleteInfectious waste must be disposed properly or else it is a serious case, if the infections spread they will be a lot of people suffer from the infected...
ReplyDeleteto prevent the spread of virus it is good the do so ,but it really created a lot of waste .
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time i heard about "hospital waste" and Eric i agree with you partially. They save people's life but they may not know that they might also killing the people while saving them!
ReplyDeleteThey are killing people, not saving people. their waste is damaged us
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of hospital waste before, they might harm other people! Waste in the hospital is so terrible! ><
ReplyDeleteYa i didnt heard it before from any people!Hospitals' waste is far way dangerous than some wastes!!!
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