Legal basis
"Medical Waste Management Regulations," Article XVII of the health care institutions shall establish medical waste temporary storage facilities, equipment, shall not be open storage of medical waste; medical waste temporary storage time shall not exceed 2 days.
Temporary storage facilities for medical waste, equipment, should be far away from the medical area, food processing areas and personnel activities, as well as living garbage storage places, and set up obvious warning signs and leakage, rodent, mosquito and fly prevention, cockroach, anti-theft, and prevention of children in contact with other safety measures. Temporary storage facilities and equipment for medical waste should be sterilized and cleaned regularly.
Medical waste is divided into several categories
1, infectious waste
Infectious waste refers to carry pathogenic microorganisms with the risk of spreading infectious diseases triggered by the spread of medical waste, including the patient's blood, bodily fluids, fecal contamination of the goods, infectious diseases, patients produced by the garbage and other medical waste plastic products;
2, pathological waste
Pathological waste refers to the diagnosis and treatment process of human waste and medical test animal carcasses, including waste human tissues generated during surgery, pathological section of discarded human tissue, pathological wax blocks, etc.;
3, injurious waste
Injurious waste refers to the human body can be stabbed or cut the discarded medical sharp instruments, including Medical needles, scalpels, scalpels, glass test tubes, etc.
4, pharmaceutical waste
Drug waste refers to the expiration, elimination, deterioration or contaminated waste medicines, including discarded general drugs, discarded cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs, etc.
5, chemical waste
Chemical waste refers to the toxicity, corrosiveness, flammability and explosiveness of the discarded waste.
Chemical waste refers to toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals, such as waste chemical reagents, chemical disinfectants, mercury sphygmomanometers, mercury thermometers and so on.