
The hospital waste management guidelines India has been updated recently in 2016. There are many changes in rules for segregation, packaging, transport, storage and disposal of biomedical waste. They are more simplified now. These are the main highlights useful for dnb pediatric examination, OSCE and viva.
According to the old guidelines (1998 and 2011 update), following categories of hospital waste management were recognizedCat- 1 Human Anatomical Wastes (human body parts, tissues and organs)The old classification for type of container used for waste segregation was as follows:
Cat- 2 Animal Anatomical Wastes (Animal tissues, organs, body parts, waste generated by veterinary hospitals, animal houses)
Cat- 3 Microbiology and Biotechnology (specimens of micro-organisms live or attenuated vaccines etc)
Cat- 4 Waste Sharps (needles, syringes, scalpels ,blades, glass etc)
Cat- 5 Discarded medicines and Cytotoxic drugs (outdated, contaminated and discarded medicines)
Cat- 6 Soiled wastes (items contaminated with blood, body fluids such as cotton, dressings, linen, beddings etc)
Cat- 7 Solid wastes (waste generated from disposable items other than sharps such as tubing, catheters, IV sets)
Cat- 8 Liquid wastes ( washing, cleaning )
Cat- 9 Incineration ash
Cat- 10 Chemical wastes ( disinfectants, insecticides )
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The symbols used for biomedical waste segregation are:
Biomedical Hazard Label
Cytotoxic hazard symbol
2. Singhal L, Tuli AK, Gautam V. Biomedical waste management guidelines 2016: What's done and what needs to be done. Indian J Med Microbiol [serial online] 2017 [cited 2017 Aug 27];35:194-8. Available from: http://www.ijmm.org/text.asp?2017/35/2/194/209589
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