Bio-Medical Waste Management
This critical review discusses regarding the gathering, segregation, treatment and disposal of medicine waste and its numerous varieties.
Abstract
Proper handling, treatment and disposal of medicine waste play a significant role in hospital infection management programme. Objectives of BMW (Biomedical waste) management primarily involves preventing transmission of illness from patient to patient, from patient to medical expert to forestall injury to the health care employee and staff in support services, whereas handling medicine waste, to forestall general exposure to the harmful effects of the cytotoxic, genotoxic and chemical medicine waste generated in hospitals. If properly designed and applied, waste management is a comparatively effective associate degreed an economical compliance-related observe. This critical review discusses regarding the gathering, segregation, treatment and disposal of medicine waste and its numerous varieties.