Health-care Waste

What ?
1. 80% General Waste
2. 20% Hazardous Waste
  1. Infectious waste
  2. Pathological waste
  3. Sharps
  4. Chemicals / pharmaceutical
  5. Radioactive waste
  6. Heavy metals
Why tackle it?
1. Infectious
  1. 23 million Hep B and C viruses
  2. 260,000 HIV viruses
Where?
1. Hospitals
2. Research Centres
3. Mortuary and autopsy centres
4. Blood banks
5. Nursing homes
Why produced?
1. Lack of awareness
2. Absence of waste management and disposal systems
  1. lack of training in proper waste management
  2. No appropriate regulations/ unenforced
3. Insufficient resources
  1. low priority
4. Legal
Future Steps
1. Build comprehensive systems
2. Raising awareness

Resource summary

	Created by Umar Iqbal0646 about 9 years ago