Medical waste refers to any waste that contains infectious material generated by hospitals, medical research centers, laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, and veterinary clinics.
Medical’wastes constitute fluid like blood, urine, body parts, and other contaminants. They also include used syringes and needles, culture dishes, glasswares, bandages gloves, scalpels, swabs, and tissues. Hie social and legal responsibilities of – people working in health care centers are the safe disposal of medical waste.
The disposal methods include incineration, chemical disinfection, autoclaving, encapsulation microwave irradiation. Landfill and burying inside premises as per norms are the final disposal of these wastes.