Medical waste is generally disposed of by incineration.
Medical personnel classify medical waste according to the "Medical Waste Classification Catalog". According to the category of medical waste will be placed in special packaging or containers, but packaging and containers should be in line with; medical waste special packaging container standards and warning signs. Medical personnel shall carefully inspect the packages or containers to ensure that they are free from breakage, seepage and other defects before containing the medical waste.
When the medical waste in the container reaches 3/4 of the packaging or container, an effective sealing method should be used to make the seal tight and tight. Containing medical waste on the outside surface of each package or container should be marked with a warning and attached Chinese labels, labels, including medical waste generation unit. Generation date category. Infectious waste into the package or container of pathological waste damage to the waste shall not be arbitrarily removed.
Definition of medical waste:
Medical waste management personnel from the location of medical waste generation every day will be sorted and packaged medical waste in accordance with the prescribed route to the hospital temporary storage room. The transportation process should prevent the loss and leakage of medical waste and prevent direct contact of medical waste with the body, and the transportation tools should be cleaned and disinfected in a timely manner at the end of the daily transportation work.
The State Environmental Protection Administration of the medical waste is defined as: all kinds of medical and health institutions in the prevention, health care, teaching, scientific research and other related activities, with direct or indirect infectious, toxic and other hazardous wastes, including waste and patient excreta and so on. These wastes are highly hazardous, containing germs or viruses are dozens, hundreds or even thousands of times that of ordinary household garbage, and play a role in spreading the epidemic process, which will inevitably jeopardize people's health if not handled appropriately.
However, it is inconceivable that many medical and health care units do not pay attention to the harmfulness of medical waste, and still keep discharging and disposing of medical waste at will; some medical units and medical personnel, in order to pursue economic benefits, sell used disposable medical instruments to waste recycling stations or individual vendors, and then dispose of them by waste recycling stations and individual vendors to package them into shoddy disposable medical instruments, and sell them again to small medical units. The use of disposable medical devices is also a great danger to human health, as they are sold to small medical units and individual clinics for use.