Medical waste it is problem facing all people who working in medical field Because the risks of those wastes which is require special treatment methods to prevent infection and to avoid their dangerous effects on humans and the environment ..
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They are all solid, liquid or gaseous wastes resulting from various medical care institutions, medical laboratories, factories and warehouses of human and veterinary medicines, Veterinary clinics, medical research centers and nursing institutions ..
Hazardous medical waste ..
Which is the part of the medical waste that can cause health risks because it contains substances that have one or more of the following characteristics :
A. Infection
B. Gene poisoning
C. Chemical poisoning
D. Radiation
E. skin …show more content…
Health-care waste can be treated on-site or off-site, It can be incinerated, autoclaved, micro waved, or treated by chemical or biological means.
Treatment Methods of Medical Waste ..
There are 5 methods to treat medical waste
Incineration : depends on the conversion of all waste components from burnable materials into ach by using high heat over 90% of all infectious medical waste was disposed of by incineration and this is still the only method used on pathological waste , for example body parts and recognizable tissues.
Autoclaving : Steam sterilization makes Biohazardous waste uninfectious. After sterilization, waste can normally be disposed in solid waste landfills, or can be burned under less stringent regulations.
Microwaving : Another way to make hazardous healthcare waste non-hazardous is to microwave it with high powerful equipment. As with autoclaving, this way opens up the waste to normal landfill disposal or incineration afterward.
Chemical : This method is based on cutting the waste and spraying it with a Chemical substances for long time to kill the microorganisms, and then dried the waste
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They are all solid, liquid or gaseous wastes resulting from various medical care institutions, medical laboratories, factories and warehouses of human and veterinary medicines, Veterinary clinics, medical research centers and nursing institutions ..
Hazardous medical waste ..
Which is the part of the medical waste that can cause health risks because it contains substances that have one or more of the following characteristics :
A. Infection
B. Gene poisoning
C. Chemical poisoning
D. Radiation
E. skin …show more content…
Health-care waste can be treated on-site or off-site, It can be incinerated, autoclaved, micro waved, or treated by chemical or biological means.
Treatment Methods of Medical Waste ..
There are 5 methods to treat medical waste
Incineration : depends on the conversion of all waste components from burnable materials into ach by using high heat over 90% of all infectious medical waste was disposed of by incineration and this is still the only method used on pathological waste , for example body parts and recognizable tissues.
Autoclaving : Steam sterilization makes Biohazardous waste uninfectious. After sterilization, waste can normally be disposed in solid waste landfills, or can be burned under less stringent regulations.
Microwaving : Another way to make hazardous healthcare waste non-hazardous is to microwave it with high powerful equipment. As with autoclaving, this way opens up the waste to normal landfill disposal or incineration afterward.
Chemical : This method is based on cutting the waste and spraying it with a Chemical substances for long time to kill the microorganisms, and then dried the waste