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Publication: IIP Proceedings Year: 2022, Month: November Page No: 89-99, ISSN/ISBN: 978-93-95632-71-3, DOI/Link: https://www.rsquarel.org/assets/docupload/rsl20232D19F3C60C929B2.pdf
EVOLUTION AND TRENDS IN MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL WASTE
Area/Stream: Management, Authors: Harinder Pal Singh Keywords: Biomedical Waste, regulations, technology, trends. Book Name /series: Futuristic Trends in Management, Volume 2, Book 6, Part 1, Chapter 7Publication: IIP Proceedings Year: 2022, Month: November Page No: 89-99, ISSN/ISBN: 978-93-95632-71-3, DOI/Link: https://www.rsquarel.org/assets/docupload/rsl20232D19F3C60C929B2.pdf
Abstract:
A society not only has right to a cleaner environment but it is also obligatory for all involved in healthcare activities that effective Biomedical Waste (BMW) management is carried out. Ever since the time of Hippocrates, the Biomedical Waste has been produced but it was not of a grave concern as quantity produced was lesser with respect to population and area available. Till recent times, up to the beginning of 19th century also, no one paid a heed to it and it was being dumped in open, burnt or washed away into drains and rivers. With the outburst of population on the Earth, the number of patients increased and consecutively, the quantity of BMW. COVID gave an exponential jump of 46% to that quantity in India within two months of outbreak of the pandemic. It is eventually social & legal responsibility of all who are involved in supporting & funding the healthcare (HC) activities. For the health of living beings and for clean environment, effective BMW management is a prerequisite.The management of biomedical waste is not only restricted to healthcare workers. In fact, there is an equal involvement of government; which frames the laws, allots finances and provides infrastructure, of corporate; to manufacture eco friendly instruments used in these activities and their subsequent disposal, of scientists; who find newer and newer techniques and methods to reduce the menace of BMW and of the society; which includes sanitation workers, attendants, relatives of the patient, environmentalists, social workers and NGOs etc. This has opened a vast field of management and technology which has set various trends rolling in the BMW management. This article reviews the trends while touching upon the history and evolution of rules and regulations with times, population, quantity the lucrative BMW market, the conventional and latest techniques including environment protection to include latest eco friendly methods for BMW disposal. However, basic knowledge of the readers on the subject is pre solicited.
Cite this: Harinder Pal Singh,"EVOLUTION AND TRENDS IN MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL WASTE", Futuristic Trends in Management, Volume 2, Book 6, Part 1, Chapter 7, November, 2022, 89-99, 978-93-95632-71-3, https://www.rsquarel.org/assets/docupload/rsl20232D19F3C60C929B2.pdf
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