Waste Management in Hospitals- A Goal to Achieve Palwankar Pooja, Professor and Head, Kawatra Arundeep Singh, Professor and Head, Chadha Vandana, Associate Professor, Bhargava Manish, Reader Address for Correspondence: Dr. Pooja Palwankar, Professor and Head Department of Periodontics, Manav Rachna Dental College G 1104, Maple Heights, Sushant Lok, C Block, Gurgaon, Haryana 122001 E-mail: drpooja.p@rediffmail.com
Keymessages: The mushrooming of various types of speciality and other hospitals and clinics has endangered the lives of the personnel not only working in these health care providing institutes but also the lives of general public and the environment. There is dire need of supervising the biomedical waste disposed through formation of various committees Online published on 1 May, 2012. Abstract Not much attention has been paid to the management of biomedical waste.(BMW) in recent years, in the dental colleges and hospitals With increasing population, the number of dental colleges and hospitals has also increased. The medical waste generated by these hospitals are disposed of together with municipal and industrial solid wastes. There is no effective waste segregation, collection, transportation & disposal system. There is lack of segregation between infectious and non-infectious biomedical waste as well as failure to implement the prescribed rules for proper management of hospital waste and also inadequate training of personnel, insufficient protective equipment, and lack of knowledge regarding use of such equipment There is immediate and urgent need to train and educate all dental and paramedical staffto adopt effective waste management practises. It is high time, we realize the importance of hospital waste management and the need of sensitizing the top level managers orienting them with various type of waste, their generation, segregation, collection, transportation &final disposal, also, itis importantthat all the hospital waste is managed in a proper scientific fashion. The present paper describes various safety precautions to be taken for the hospital employee and measures to be adopted to minimise health risks due to hospital waste, the implication of hospital waste on employee, public & environment. To enhance co-ordination managers must comprehensively describe the total system and specify the roles of key functions and individuals. The generation, handling and disposal of hospital waste involve every department in the hospital. Formation of Hospital Waste Management Committee! Team for effective waste disposal is needed to be implemented. Top Keywords Biomedical waste disposal(BMW), Infectious and Non infectious waste, Segregation. Top |