Medical waste is divided into which categories how to deal with these wastes You understand?

1, medical waste is categorized as follows: infectious waste: refers to carry pathogenic microorganisms with the risk of infectious disease transmission of medical waste. Including: cotton swabs, gauze and other items contaminated by the patient's blood, body fluids, excreta; infectious disease patients produce garbage; a variety of discarded medical specimens, blood, serum; pathogens of the culture medium, specimens and strains of bacteria, poisonous species of the preservation of the liquid; the use of one-time use of medical supplies and disposable medical equipment is considered infectious waste.

2, injurious waste: refers to the ability to stab or cut the human body discarded medical sharps. Including: medical needles, suture needles; scalpels, scalpels, scalpels, surgical saws, various types of medical sharps; slides, glass test tubes, glass ampoules and so on.

3, pathological waste: refers to the diagnosis and treatment process of human waste and medical laboratory animal carcasses. Including: surgery and other diagnostic and treatment processes generated by the waste of human tissue, organs, etc.; medical laboratory animal tissues, carcasses; pathological section of the discarded human tissue, pathological wax blocks.

4, chemical waste: refers to toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals. Including: medical imaging room, laboratory waste chemical reagents; waste peroxyacetic acid, glutaraldehyde and other chemical disinfectants; waste mercury sphygmomanometer, mercury thermometer.

5, pharmaceutical waste: refers to the expiration date, elimination, deterioration or contaminated discarded drugs. Including: discarded antibiotics, non-prescription drugs and other general drugs; discarded azathioprine, phenylbutyrate nitrogen mustard cisplatin, mitomycin and immunosuppressants and other cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs; discarded vaccines, blood products and so on.

6, medical waste collection, transportation, temporary storage, disposal and a series of work should be done in accordance with the rules. From the place of medical waste generated to incinerate the whole process of incineration to the incineration site for harmless treatment should be incorporated into the legal system management track, to adhere to the strict management, scientific management. First of all from the medical institutions to produce medical waste should be strictly differentiated marking, general medical waste into a yellow plastic bag, hazardous waste into a red plastic bag, infectious waste into a white plastic bag, ordinary garbage into a black plastic bag, sharps garbage into a hard container. No leakage, spillage, etc. is allowed during transportation, and the other time storage should not be too long. The disposers of medical waste should be educated on legal awareness on the basis of their professional training. All this work will ensure that the disposal of medical waste is carried out smoothly.