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Medical waste management
The document discusses the handling and classification of hazardous medical waste within healthcare facilities. It outlines the risks posed by improper medical waste management to doctors, nurses, patients, and the environment. Various types of hazardous medical waste are defined, including infected, sharp, pharmaceutical, chemical and radioactive waste. Guidelines are provided for the safe segregation, storage, treatment and disposal of different categories of medical waste to minimize health and environmental risks.
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- 1. The Handling techniquesand segregation of the Health Care (medical wastes ) inside the medical institutions and Healthcare Facility.
- 2. HAZARDOUS MEDICAL WASTE Classification
- 4. Who are inrisk from healthcare waste??? Doctors and Nurses. Patients. Health care providers and treatment employees. Environment and public health. Dentists and dental workers. blood bank technologists. Laboratory technologists. housekeeping personnel.
- 5. How does exposure occur? Most common: needle sticks. Cuts from other contaminated sharps (scalpels, broken glass , etc.). Contact of mucous membranes (for example, the eye, nose, mouth) or broken (cut or abraded) skin with contaminated blood.
- 6. Points of problems: Waste Transport Transport Place Waste or to ready segregat transform central for waste generati ation on ion storage disposal Points of risk inside a healthcare facility Waste Interim Fleet Transport External treatment storage manage- and waste and of waste ment, tracing collection disposal logistic of waste Points of risk outside a healthcare facility
- 7. Gastro enteric Infections Respiratory Infections Ocular Infections Genital Infections Skin Infections Meningitis AIDS Septicamia Bacteraemia Candidaemia Viral Hepatitis A Viral Hepatitis (B-C) Anthrax
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- 9. Safety procedures (when dealing with hazardous medical waste): Wearing: Apron. Safety goggles. Nose mask. High neck rubber boots. Then: Wash face and hands up to the elbows with water and disinfectant soap after each handling of hazardous medical waste.
- 10. Safety Requirements: - Nose mask Gloves Apron High neck rubber boot Safety goggles
- 11. Principals of dealingwith the Hazards medical wastes Inside the health Care Institutions
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