What is medical waste?

What is medical waste? The State Environmental Protection Administration defines medical waste as: directly or indirectly infectious, toxic and other harmful wastes generated by various medical and health institutions in medical treatment, prevention, health care, teaching, scientific research and other related activities, including wastes and patient excreta. These wastes are high-risk and high-pollution wastes, and their germs or viruses are dozens, hundreds or even thousands of times that of ordinary domestic wastes, which plays a certain role in the spread and epidemic of diseases. Without proper treatment, they will certainly endanger people's health. ?

However, it is incredible that many medical and health units do not pay attention to the harm of medical waste and continue to discharge and treat medical waste at will; In order to pursue economic benefits, some medical units and medical personnel sell used disposable medical devices to waste recycling centers or individual vendors, and then the waste recycling centers and individual vendors handle them, package them into counterfeit disposable medical devices, and then sell them to small medical units and individual clinics, which has caused great harm to human health. ?

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Therefore, in order to protect people's health, effective measures must be taken to deal with medical waste.