Treatment of medical waste

Medical waste is waste with direct or indirect infectious, toxic, and other hazardous properties generated by medical and healthcare organizations in the course of medical, preventive, and healthcare as well as other related activities. Effective management of hospital waste is an important link and way to control the spread of disease. In order to strengthen the management of medical waste, effective prevention and control of medical waste on human health and environmental hazards, is now our hospital on medical waste, focusing on the disposal of disposable medical supplies waste disposal methods are reported as follows.　　1 Classified collection of medical waste 1.1 Set up more than three colors of dirt bags Black bags for domestic waste, yellow bags for medical waste, sharps box for injurious waste, the hospital to establish a strict classification of dirt collection system, all the waste is put into the dirt bags marked with the appropriate color, in the loaded 3/4 when a full-time recycler is responsible for sealing the bags for delivery.　　1.2 Sharps should not be mixed with other wastes. Sharps must be securely and safely placed in the sharps box after use, and when 3/4 full, the lid will be sealed and sent to the incinerator by the full-time recycler for incineration and harmless disposal.　　1.3 scattered bags of dirt collected on time and centralized bags of dirt daily transported out of the wards or departments, and transported to the designated storage site, collection and delivery of segregated transfer, in order to effectively prevent the hazards of pollutants on the personnel and pollution of the environment.　　2 Treatment of medical waste 2.1 Disposable blood transfusion device and drainage bag Disposable syringes after blood collection should be put into the special collection bag for direct incineration because they are highly contagious and the effect of disinfection by immersion is not satisfactory.　　2.2 Disposable infusion set After use, first cut off the needle part, put it into the sharps box, the rest of the part as long as the separation of metal corkscrew piercer, after the middle cut a knife, into the special collection bag can be.　　2.3 Disposable syringes after use Needle into the sharps box; syringe barrels into the collection bag, centralized recycling after the use of centralized disinfection methods.　　2.4 Establishment of unit measurement and recycling system Set up a person in charge of fixed-point recycling work, after the use of disposable medical supplies do not carry out "one-to-one" counting and exchange to minimize the excessive contact between the personnel and the use of disposable medical supplies, we will be commonly used syringes, infusion set for measurement, with the unit measurement and the hospital's annual purchase of multiplied by the quantity, the total amount obtained and recycled We measured the commonly used syringes and infusion sets and multiplied the unit measurements with the annual purchase quantity of the hospital, and compared the total quantity obtained with the recycled quantity, the total quantity of disposable medical supplies in our hospital was lower than the recycled quantity by 15% to 20%, which was because some of the recycled disposable medical supplies had residual liquids, and therefore their weight might exceed the hospital's purchased quantity.　　3 Discussion WHO was proposed by 19 European countries in 1983, and emphasized the importance of systematic study of medical waste treatment; in 1986, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put forward the guidelines on infectious waste treatment; in 1998, WHO will be the medical waste regulations for the 8 major categories, and then, many countries and regions have introduced the guidelines and regulations for the treatment of medical waste, etc. [1, 2]. China in this SARS epidemic, in a relatively short period of time, successively by the State Council, the Ministry of Health and the General Administration of Environmental Protection and other ministries and commissioners to promulgate laws and regulations related to the management of medical waste, thereby accelerating the process of standardizing the management of medical waste in China.　　China's health administrative measures for the use of disposable medical supplies after the treatment of the proposed two both with guiding and directive tasks, namely: (1) will be used up disposable medical supplies in each medical unit with high-efficiency disinfectant for classification and disinfection; (2) after the use of disposable syringes for disfigurement, and then disinfected with disinfectant immersion disinfectant. The implementation of the above directives is based on the fact that medical waste is infectious, but so far, no matter in the World Health Organization (WHO) to the classification of dirt, or our existing relevant regulations can not be found in the disposable medical supplies waste belongs to the "infectious garbage" of the exact answer. After all the disposable medical supplies in each medical unit with a highly effective disinfectant immersion disinfection in order to show harmless treatment ignores the medical unit there is still a considerable part of the reality is not infectious disposable medical supplies, contrary to the principle of disinfection and sterilization methods, to a certain extent, to expand the negative impact of the application of disinfectants [3], and other literature shows that disposable plastic infusion tubes after immersion disinfection method, and does not have the same effect as the other disposable medical supplies. Another literature shows that the disposable plastic infusion tubes are treated by soaking and sterilizing and then disfiguring, which does not achieve the effect of reducing the contaminated bacteria, but on the contrary, it also makes the bacterial contamination worse [4]. Because the vast majority of hospitals disposable medical equipment deformation work by manual inspection, therefore, the inspection of large quantities, difficult, and the risk of hospital infections arising from the inspector [5, 6], and deformation standards are difficult to define, quality is not guaranteed. I hope to help you