Temporary storage of medical waste shall not exceed forty-eight hours.
The temporary storage of medical waste shall not exceed forty-eight hours. And storage facilities, equipment, should be far away from the medical area, food processing area and personnel activities, as well as domestic garbage storage place, and set up obvious warning signs and other safety measures.
Legal basis: "Medical Waste Management Regulations," Article XVII, medical and health institutions should establish temporary storage facilities for medical waste, equipment, shall not be open storage of medical waste; temporary storage of medical waste 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.
Responsibility for the safe disposal of medical waste is a health care institutions and medical waste disposal units, should establish and improve the responsibility system for medical waste management, to ensure the safe disposal of medical waste.
According to the relevant provisions of the 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 due to medical waste accidents.
Medical health institutions and centralized medical waste disposal units, should formulate rules and regulations related to the safe disposal of medical waste 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, to prevent violations of the relevant provisions of the act occurs.