Study of Waste Management Issues In Indian Health Care Units

Abstract

Healthcare waste management (HCWM) is defined by the World Health newlineOrganization (WHO) as trash produced by health care institutions, hospitals, pathological newlinelab, vaccination centres , clinics, and institutions related to the medical research. Poor newlinehealthcare waste management (HCWM) has negative environmental and public health newlineconsequences. Healthcare is vital for our life and well being and the waste generated from newlinethe health care institutions is a serious concern and improper waste management done in newlinethe HCU is a threat and have direct impact on the health care community. There is a serious newlineconcern regarding waste generated from health care institutions which are not being newlineadequately managed and in most cases inadequate knowledge and proper trained health newlinecare professionals in context to BMWM and also inadequate segregation and risk involved newlinein disposal of waste. The waste dumped in the sites are being pen and uncontrolled and are newlinealso located near to the residential areas. The HCI dispose their waste as it can be cost newlineeffective as well as without any regard to the hygienic means of disposal system. Despite newlinethe researcher had made an attempt to collect significant and recent literatures pertaining to newlinethe topics. The researcher couldn t identify research article that have recognized whether newlinethere is a significant difference in wastages produced by different wards in the Healthcare newlineHospitals. None of the study has involved survey based on HCWM among doctors, and newlinedifferent health care professional associated with the health care institutions as well as newlineissues and challenges in implementing the HCWM system thus the present research tries to newlinefill this gap. The research question raised in the research involves , How is waste generated newlinefrom different healthcare institutions (HCI) are being segregated into various components newlineand the mechanism of collecting and transporting the waste to the disposal wastes. It also newlineaddressed the problems associated with treatment and storage of the wastes in different