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