COVID-19 CRISIS ON HOSPITAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
Abstract
The outbreak of COVID-19 has to lead to the vast global health crisis and has its overall impact on the economy, society and of course on the environment. The COVID-19 crisis has also overall lead and endangered the shot up of biomedical waste. The safe disposal of Biomedical waste has lead to a big challenge. Medical Centers including hospitals, clinics, and places where treatments and diagnoses is been done generates a large amount of hazardous biomedical waste. COVID-19 outbreak has imposed a vast challenge on combating the spread of disease and managing biomedical waste. This paper mainly focuses on the COVID-19 crisis on Medical waste, risk of exposure, regulatory acts, medical waste management and various control techniques.
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