Analysis on Bio Medical Waste Management in Bhaktivedant Multispecialist Hospital-Case Study

Medical care is vital for our life, health and well being. But the waste generated from medical activities can be hazardous, toxic and even lethal because of their high potential for diseases transmission. Biomedical waste rules are not followed by many hospitals, and most of them dispose of every kind of biomedical wastes in nearby public waste disposal systems without any pretreatment. Disposable syringes, needles, blood soaked pads, used blood bags, and other such materials are simply thrown in the open trash can. The necessity of managing health care waste in a scientific manner has been receiving increasing attention in India over the past few years due to the serious threat to public health, pollution of air, water and land resources arising out of its improper management. It is equally important that all service medical, dental, nursing officers, other paramedical staff and waste handlers such as safaiwalas be well oriented to the basic requirements of handling and management of biomedical waste. It is with this objective of providing such basic information that the present article has been composed. Hospitals are complex institutions which are frequented by people from every walk of life without any distinction between age, sex, race and religion. Hospitals produce waste which is increasing in quantity and diversity due to advances in science.