Medical waste refers to medical institutions in the medical treatment, prevention, health care and other related activities with direct or indirect infectious, toxic and other hazardous wastes, including infectious, pathological, injurious, pharmaceutical and chemical wastes. These wastes contain a large number of bacterial viruses, and have certain characteristics of spatial contamination, acute viral infection and latent infection; if they are not better managed and discarded at will, and are allowed to be mixed with domestic garbage and dispersed into people's living environments, they will contaminate the atmosphere, water sources, land and plants and animals, and cause the spread of diseases. Seriously jeopardize the physical and mental health of people. In today's environmental protection awareness is gradually increasing, to protect the environment is the responsibility and obligation of each of our citizens. Nowadays, there are a variety of technologies that can be used to dispose of medical waste, among which high-temperature incineration can fully ensure the stabilization, safety, reduction and harmlessness of medical waste, and at the same time, meet the contemporary development trend of medical waste disposal. In addition, the sanitation department carried out the management and treatment of medical waste in the mid-1990s, set up specialized institutions and dedicated staff to medical institutions to collect and centrally dispose of medical waste at regular intervals, and gradually improved the management system of the pollution control process of medical waste, so that it can be carried out strictly in accordance with the relevant national standards and technical regulations throughout the whole process of handling medical waste.
English name: Medicalwaste
The Classification Catalog of Medical Waste divides medical waste into five categories:
1. Infectious waste refers to medical waste carrying pathogenic microorganisms with the risk of causing the spread of infectious diseases, including articles contaminated by patients' blood, body fluids and excreta, and garbage produced by patients suffering from infectious diseases;
2. p>2. Pathological waste refers to the diagnosis and treatment process of human waste and medical test animal carcasses, including surgery produced by the discarded human tissues, pathological sections of discarded human tissue, pathological wax blocks, etc.;
3. Injurious waste refers to the ability to stab or cut the human body of the discarded medical sharps, including medical needles, scalpels, scalpels, glass test tubes, etc.;
4. Pharmaceutical waste refers to expired, out of date, deteriorated or contaminated waste medicines, including discarded general drugs, discarded cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs, etc.;
5. Chemical waste refers to toxicity, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals, such as discarded chemical reagents, chemical disinfectants, mercury sphygmomanometers, mercury thermometer, etc. The laboratory discarded general chemical reagents, chemical reagents, mercury thermometers, etc., can stab or cut the human body. General chemical reagents discarded in the laboratory and discarded disinfectants, etc. are discharged into the sewers. Classified and bagged collection, special recycling and disposal methods: incineration is used if it can be incinerated. Highly hazardous wastes such as culture media, specimens and strains of pathogens in medical wastes should be subjected to autoclave sterilization or chemical disinfection, and then collected and disposed of according to infectious wastes. Domestic garbage (except those discarded by infectious patients) can be treated as ordinary domestic garbage.