Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Health-care Waste
- What ?
- 80% General
Waste
- 20% Hazardous
Waste
- Infectious waste
- Pathological waste
- Sharps
- Chemicals / pharmaceutical
- Radioactive waste
- Heavy metals
- Why tackle it?
- Infectious
- 23 million Hep B and C viruses
- 260,000 HIV viruses
- Where?
- Hospitals
- Research Centres
- Mortuary and autopsy centres
- Blood banks
- Nursing homes
- Why produced?
- Lack of awareness
- Absence of waste
management and disposal
systems
- lack of training in proper waste
management
- No appropriate
regulations/ unenforced
- Insufficient resources
- low priority
- Legal
- Future Steps
- Build comprehensive systems
- Raising awareness