biomedical waste management (bmw)
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BIO MEDICAL WASTE
MANAGEMENT
BY : PRIYANKA
PALIWAL
It is defined as‟Any solid/liquid waste
including its container and any intermediate, which is generated during diagonsis, treatment or immunization of human beings and animals”.
WHAT IS BMW
Waste is generated by - Healthcare facilities - Research facilities - Laboratories
WHO GENERATES BMW?
Healthcare Waste Characterization
CLASSIFICATION
Categories Of Person Exposed To Risk
Of Infection
Prevent Nosocomial infections Control misutilisation of left over drugs. Minimise the risk of air, water and soil
pollution directly due to waste, or due to defective incineration emissions and ash.
Check the risk of infection outside hospital for waste handlers and scavengers, other peoples.
Need for biomedical waste management
Problems associated with biomedical waste
Categories of BMW
Ministry of Environment and Forests has revised the
Bio Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules promulgated under the Environment Protection Act of 1986. The Rules now called the Bio Medical Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules 2011.According to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) gross generation of BMW in India is 4,05,702 kg/day of which only 2,91,983 kg/day is disposed, which means that almost 28% of the wastes is left untreated and not disposed finding its way in dumps or water bodies and re-enters our system.
Biomedical waste management rules in india
Do not dispose dressings in patients bin / Ask for
disposal bags. Ensure all the plastics and gloves are cut and put
into bleach solution. Ensure all used injections are cut using needle
cutters. Ensure compliance of this scheme during ward
visits Help patients understand the scheme. Media plates to be put in separate bleach solution.
Role Of Doctors, Nurses, Lab Technicians.
Put the waste indiscriminately. Put wrong bags in bin. (Adhere to colour code.) Fill the bags till neck. (Waste would otherwise
spill over.) Handle waste without protective clothing. Drag the bags after removal. (Bags can burst and
the site could be repulsive.) Never recap the needle. (Never re-use needle
without disinfection) Mix non infectious waste with infectious waste.
DON’TS
Environment Legislation
• The Air (PControl of Pollution) Act, prevention and 1981• The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986• The Hazardous Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 1989• The National Environmental Tribunal Act, 1995• The Biomedical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998• The Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2000
Conclusion
• We need innovative and radical measures to clean up the distressing picture of lack of civic concern on the part of hospitals and slackness in government implementation of bare minimum of rules, as waste generation particularly biomedical waste imposes increasing direct and indirect costs on society. • The challenge before us is to scientifically manage growing quantities of biomedical waste that go beyond past practices.
Let the waste of
the sick not
contaminate the
lives of healthy