Environmental And Healthcare Issues Of Medical Waste

Abstract

This article investigates medical waste issues, covering typical sources, regulating regulations, and methods of processing and disposal. Many advanced economic countries have medical waste regulations, but there is no advice on whether things are contagious or not. However, there are fewer regulations concerning medical waste in developing countries. Because of this ambiguity, categorising medical trash has become inefficient, which results in rise in volume of trash treated for pathogens, which is typically done by incineration. Review highlights the scenario of medical waste generation, waste segregation and collection methods, health care waste disposal techniques, and medical waste impact assessment on the environment. This analysis demonstrates that incorrect methods of sorting, transporting, treatment of disposal, and untrained workers lead to effects on environmental indicators that cause harmful effects on the environment, human health, and healthcare worker accidents. That will ultimately increase unfavorable environmental consequences. The review concludes that improved medical professional training and systematic categorizing of healthcare waste streams are critical pathways for effective medical waste management at hospitals and clinics and standard environmental assessment of medical waste is a must to give the best scenario of medical waste treatment.