Biomedical Waste Management In Health Care

The waste produced in the course of healthcare activities carries a higher potential for the spreading of infection and injury, unawareness and inadequate knowledge of handling of health care waste can cause serious health consequences and a significant impact on the environment as well. The purpose of study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of doctors, nurses and sanitary staff regarding biomedical waste management in the health care establishments. The study was conducted among hospitals of Srinagar city. Medical personnel included were doctors, nurses and sanitary staff. Doctors and nurses have better knowledge than sanitary staff regarding biomedical waste management.knowledege regarding the color coding and waste segregation at source was found very poor among sanitary staffs who were deeply involved in the process of collection and segregation of biomedical waste .The importance of training regarding biomedical waste management needs emphasis.
KEYWORDS:-Biomedical waste, knowledge, Attitude, Practice
INTRODUCTION
All activities of living organisms on the earth produce waste in some form or other. Normally aerobic and anaerobic process in the environment degrades such products. Theses wastes, both biodegradable and non-degradable hardly had any impact on the environment until the invention of
At the same time, this kind of illegal and unethical reuse can be extremely dangerous and even fatal. Diseases like cholera, plague, tuberculosis, hepatitis (especially HBV), AIDS (HIV) diphtheria etc. In either epidemic or even endemic form, pose grave public health risks. Unfortunately, in the absence of reliable and extensive data, it is difficult to quantify the dimension of the problem or even the extent and variety of the risk