Waste of Hospital Management

  • Aashish Mehra

Abstract

Activities in healthcare can create various forms of hazardous waste. Mismanagement can lead to environmental harm and health threats for the workplace. When it comes to the healthy disposal of hospital waste, developed countries are limited in funding. This report summarizes the key challenges in the treatment of hospital waste in developed countries. An analysis of the present situation literature shows that several previous successes in law and regulations focusing on the treatment of patients waste these nations. Those countries. These laws are applied depending from hospital to hospital. In comparison, there are broad differences in waste both within and around these countries' generation patterns. This is partly attributed to the lack of a description consensus and the researchers' methods for calculating such waste. In comparison, hospitals are weak in these countries separation, collection, handling, transport and treatment of waste, resulting in occupational and environmental threats. In the absence of training for clinic employee’s information and understanding on proper waste management remain limited. Overall, in developed countries, hospital waste disposal is facing a range of problems. In order to reduce the adverse impact of hospital wastes it can be done through sustainable waste management activities.

Published
2019-11-30
Section
Articles