Bio Medical Waste

Introduction - Bio Medical Waste: Medical care is vital for our life and health, but biomedical waste management is crucial health issue for community. Improper segregation and disposal of hospital waste poses a serious threat to our environment and healthcare. Appropriate management of bio medical waste is a continuous process. Hence its requirement and significance should be inculcated in Health Care Facilities.

Biomedical Waste management is an essential component of quality healthcare assurance in hospitals. Meticulous bio medical waste disposal management has been documented to reduce the hospital acquired infections to a great extent.

Defining BMW: It means any waste which is generated during the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or research activities pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biological or in health camps.

Objective of Training: Most health professionals are not aware about the risk involved when they handle biomedical waste. The sole purpose of Biomedical Waste Management is to develop awareness amongst all health professionals about the recent Bio Medical Waste Management rules, 2016 (amended up to 2019) by Government of India and it is mandatory to implement.

The Training would enhance capacity building of stakeholders for Biomedical Waste Management which in turn will help to reduce Biomedical waste hazards and ultimately have an impact on hospital acquired infections and quality health care can be achieved. Safe handling of the bio medical waste has revealed a significant impact on preserving and sustaining optimum level of human health and is mitigating environmental degradation.

Expected Outcome: The training would help in reducing incidence of hospital acquired infections and hence improve wellness of patients and improvement of environment.