Qualitative analysis of bio medical waste in the private hospitals of Allahabad city

Abstract

In pursuing the aim of to become less amount in health problems and enhancing the quality of care, healthcare facilities indispensably created waste that may itself be hazardous to health. Proper management of biomedical waste is not only a legal, but also a social responsibility of all kinds of hospitals and healthcare units. The on-site segregation of waste generation is the first and foremost important step in healthcare waste management. It is most important of ensuring that hazardous wastes or infectious wastes and healthcare general wastes or non-infectious wastes should keep separated and stored in appropriate color-coded containers. If there is failure of this important step, then it will turn non-hazardous waste into hazardous wastes. From some previous study and research, it is concluded that 0.5 to 2.0 kg/ bed/ day hospital waste is generated in India.