{"id":160960,"date":"2022-01-12T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=160960"},"modified":"2022-01-12T20:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:47:27","slug":"managing-biomedical-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/managing-biomedical-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing biomedical waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News:\u00a0<\/strong>Since the outbreak of Covid pandemic, there has been rise in the Safe handling and elimination of biomedical waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read here:\u00a023 states at additional Covid risk due to Biomedical waste<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the challenges associated with biomedical waste?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

– Mixing biomedical waste with household garbage led to infection, as most wastes were disposed of in the landfill sites.<\/p>\n

– No proper management and waste disposal in hospitals and other covid designated medical centres.<\/p>\n

– Littering of discarded Covid-related stuff, such as masks, face shields, etc alongside roads, hospitals, healthcare centres and other places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read here:\u00a0Use app to monitor COVID-19 biomedical waste, SC to civic bodies<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the government initiatives to handle biomedical waste?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The government introduced Biomedical Waste Management Rules, 2016<\/strong><\/a>, which is regularly updated by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)<\/a><\/strong> because of the ongoing covid pandemic. Some of the latest CPCB guidelines are:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 It requires the bio-waste to be packed in double-layered yellow bags and transported in specialised vehicles to the designated common biomedical waste treatment facilities for incineration, autoclaving or burning to generate energy.<\/p>\n

– The CPCB has created a special mobile application, \u201cCovid-19 BWM (Biomedical Waste Management) App<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, to keep a tab on pandemic-related information, including the handling of infectious junk.<\/p>\n

– CPCB provides training for handling perilous waste<\/strong> in infection-prevention methods, such as hand hygiene, respiratory etiquettes, and other needed measures through video films and demonstrations.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges associated with the government initiatives?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

1) CPCB norms are not strictly followed. 2) Although mandatory, the required data is rarely uploaded by the concerned bio-waste handling agencies in the BWM App.<\/p>\n

What should be the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Some healthcare experts suggested to bar-coded the yellow bags to track the source<\/strong> of the unsafe garbage and its movement to the waste treatment centres.\u00a0 Also, the Delhi-based union of waste collectors and sweepers is demanding to provide safety gear and to be treated on par with other front line Covid-19 workers. They also demand separate isolation houses, as are lacking in spaces for home quarantine. So, the Government should work on these suggestions.<\/p>\n

Also, the government should initiate a public awareness campaign<\/strong> about the safe handling of biomedical waste.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article “Managing biomedical waste”\u00a0<\/strong>published in the\u00a0Business Standard <\/strong>on\u00a011th January 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News:\u00a0Since the outbreak of Covid pandemic, there has been rise in the Safe handling and elimination of biomedical waste. Read here:\u00a023 states at additional Covid risk due to Biomedical waste What are the challenges associated with biomedical waste? – Mixing biomedical waste with household garbage led to infection, as most wastes were disposed of in… Continue reading Managing biomedical waste<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-160960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704801368},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}