The Health Hazard Of Medical Waste Management

By Carolyn Wilson


The waste that is distinct from the normal or general trash would differ from the other kind of dangerous waste like radioactive and chemical waste. The medical waste management could generate the waste that is radioactive and chemical materials. While there are wastes that are normally not be infectious though they still required proper disposal.

The total amount in waste would generated by the healthcare activities inside the hospital, around eighty five percent is not hazardous and general waste. That waste is compared to the domestic waste in normal household. The fifteen percent remaining considered as hazardous material which might be chemical, radioactive or infectious.

The incineration on waste have been practiced, inadequately the incineration unsuitable things that may results in release of the pollutants in the air and generation in ash residue. The incinerated materials will contain with chlorine that could generate furans and dioxins that are human carcinogen and been associated with range of health effects adverse. The heavy materials or metals that have high content of metal could lead to spreading the toxic metals in environment.

The garbage should properly be disposed and managed in order to protect the surroundings, the workers and general public, specifically the sanitation and healthcare workers whom at risk in exposing themselves in occupational hazard. The steps in management in waste may include accumulation, storage, transport, generation and the disposal. Implementation and development of waste policy management could improve the overall in facilities in country.

The lack in awareness about health danger relating in healthcare waste and inadequate training at proper trash handling is bad. The absence of it and insufficient finance could be the common problems in getting connected with the healthcare trash. A lot of countries do not appropriately follow some regulations or does not enforce them.

The high income country generates at average of five hundred grams of dangerous waste on hospital bed per day while the low income country generates around two hundred grams. Though the healthcare wastes are often be not separated in non hazardous and hazardous wastes in some Low Countries income. That would making real quantity on dangerous waste in much higher.

The healthcare wastes could contain potential harmful organisms that could infect the hospital patients and workers also the general people. Another potential danger might include resistant drug microorganisms that spread from facilities to environment. Is not that the way to start zombie apocalypse? One should adverse the outcomes that associated with the garbage and the by products of the injuries that involves sharp objects.

The wastes might be liquid or solid. The examples of the infection stuffs may include the discarded blood, unwanted microbiological stocks and cultures and some identifiable parts of the body. There are also parts of human body that is not identified some used dressings and bandages, used gloves and many more. Other animal tissue might be there too, and body fluids or laboratory waste that could exhibit the dangers to the world.

The medical excess management has becoming the critical problem as it poses the potential risks in health and the damage to environment. It also is of greater importance that the potential hazard or environmental and public risks with propensity in resulting to epidemics. Still, it continues on being a major challenge, mostly healthcare facilities in developing countries where there are hampered vial economical, training of staff and technology.




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