The Medical Waste Classification Catalog divides medical waste into five categories: infectious waste, pathological waste, injurious waste, pharmaceutical waste, and chemical waste.
Disposal:
1, according to the category of special packaging or containers, to ensure that the packaging or containers are not broken, leakage and other defects, broken packaging should be treated as therapeutic waste.
2, the waste should not be overfilled, more than 3/4 of the time should be sealed, sealed tightly and tightly, indicating the department and the number of.
3, classified collection, no mixing; no leakage; no dirt (sharps into the sharps box, non-sharps into the bag).
4, transport to prevent loss, leakage, proliferation and direct contact with the body; transport of medical waste should be used to prevent infiltration, put spillage, no sharp edges and corners, easy to load and unload and clean special delivery tools, various packaging and delivery tools should be dedicated to the identification of medical waste.
5, the establishment of medical waste storage, equipment, not open storage, and set up a person responsible for the management.
6, do a good job of registration, including the source, type, weight and quantity, handover time, the final destination and the operator's signature, etc., the information is kept for three years.
7, the temporary storage of waste, facilities and timely cleaning and disinfection treatment, prohibit the transfer of medical waste trading.
8, medical waste storage time shall not exceed 2 days, after the end of the daily work on the transportation tools for cleaning and disinfection.
9, the occurrence of medical waste loss, leakage, proliferation and accidents occur, should be promptly reported to the competent administrative department of health within 48 hours; resulting in the occurrence of infectious diseases, reported in accordance with the relevant provisions, and emergency treatment.
Pollution of soil
Medical waste occurs along with the process of medical services, such as improper disposal, arbitrary open piles, not only occupies a large amount of land, resulting in the reduction of available land resources, and a large number of toxic waste residues or waste liquids in the natural world everywhere in the circulation, it is very easy to come into contact with the soil, and some medical and health care institutions and even medical waste will be simply buried, which is a contamination of the soil is This is a very big pollution to the soil.
Once the toxic substances of medical waste enter the soil, they will be adsorbed by the soil, pollute the soil, kill the microorganisms and protozoa in the soil, destroy the micro-ecology of the soil, and in turn reduce the soil's degradation of pollutants; the acids, alkalis and salts in them will change the nature and structure of the soil, leading to acidification, alkalization and hardening of the soil, and affecting the development and growth of the plant roots, destroying the ecological environment. and growth, destroying the ecological environment.