1, medical waste temporary storage time does not exceed forty-eight hours. And storage facilities, equipment, should be far away from the medical area, food processing areas and personnel activities, as well as domestic waste storage places, and set up obvious warning signs and other safety measures.
2, the legal basis: "Medical Waste Management Regulations," Article XVII
Medical and health institutions should establish temporary storage facilities for medical waste, equipment, not open storage of medical waste; temporary storage of medical waste shall not exceed 2 days. Medical waste temporary storage facilities, equipment, should be far away from the medical area, food processing area and
personnel activities, as well as living garbage storage place, and set up obvious warning signs and leakage, rodent, mosquito and fly, cockroach, anti-theft, as well as preventing children from coming into contact with other safety measures. Temporary storage facilities for medical waste, equipment should be regularly disinfected and cleaned.
Two, what is the responsibility for the safe disposal of medical waste
The responsibility for the safe disposal of medical waste is a health care institutions and medical waste disposal units, should establish and improve the responsibility for the management of medical waste, to ensure the safe disposal of medical waste. According to the relevant provisions of medical and health institutions and medical waste centralized disposal unit, should establish and improve the responsibility system of medical waste management, its legal representative is the first person responsible for the effective fulfillment of their duties to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and environmental pollution caused by medical waste. Medical and health institutions and centralized medical waste disposal units, should be developed with the safe disposal of medical waste regulations and emergency response in the event of an accident, set up monitoring departments or full-time and part-time personnel, responsible for checking, supervising and implementing the management of the unit's medical waste management, to prevent violations of the relevant provisions of the act occurs.