Medical Waste Management Norms

Legal analysis: according to the category of medical waste, medical waste will be separated into packages or containers that comply with the "Provisions on Standards and Warning Labels for Special Packages and Containers for Medical Waste"; before containing medical waste, medical waste packages or containers should be carefully inspected to ensure that there is no breakage, leakage, and other defects; infectious waste, pathologic waste, and injurious waste, Infectious wastes, pathological wastes, injurious wastes, pharmaceutical wastes and chemical wastes cannot be mixed and collected. A small amount of pharmaceutical waste can be mixed with infectious waste, but it should be indicated on the label; the management of discarded narcotic, psychotropic, radioactive, toxic and other drugs and their related wastes shall be carried out in accordance with the relevant laws, administrative regulations and the relevant national regulations and standards; the waste chemical reagents and disinfectants in bulk in chemical wastes shall be handed over to the specialized agencies for disposal; and the medical instruments containing mercury in bulk, such as thermometers and sphygmomanometers, shall be handed over to the specialized agencies for disposal when they are scrapped. When scrapped, they should be handed over to specialized institutions for disposal; high-risk wastes such as culture media of pathogens, specimens and preservation fluids of strains and viruses in medical wastes should be firstly pressure steam sterilized or chemically disinfected at the place where they are generated, and then collected and handled in accordance with infectious wastes; infectious excretions generated by patients with infectious diseases in quarantine or suspected of having infectious diseases should be strictly disinfected in accordance with the national regulations, and reach the national emission standards before being discharged into the sewage treatment system; medical wastes generated by patients with infectious diseases in isolation or patients suspected of having infectious diseases shall use double wrappers and be sealed in a timely manner; infectious wastes, pathological wastes, and injurious wastes put into the wrappers or containers shall not be removed.

Legal basis: "Medical Waste Management Regulations"

Article 3 These regulations apply to the collection, transportation, storage, disposal and supervision and management of medical waste and other activities. Medical and health institutions to treat patients with infectious diseases or suspected infectious diseases patients generated by the domestic waste, in accordance with the management and disposal of medical waste. Medical and health institutions abandoned narcotic, psychiatric, radioactive, toxic drugs and their related waste management, in accordance with relevant laws, administrative regulations and the relevant provisions of the State, the implementation of standards.

Article 5 of the people's governments at or above the county level, the competent administrative department of health, medical waste collection, transportation, storage, disposal activities in the implementation of unified supervision and management of disease prevention and control; the competent administrative department of environmental protection, medical waste collection, transportation, storage, disposal activities in the prevention and control of environmental pollution in the implementation of unified supervision and management. People's governments at or above the county level, other relevant departments in their respective areas of responsibility for the supervision and management of medical waste disposal.

Article XVI of the medical and health institutions should be collected in a timely manner of medical waste generated by the unit, and according to the categories placed in leak-proof, anti-sharp penetration of special packaging or closed containers. Medical waste special packaging, containers, there should be obvious warning signs and warning instructions. Medical waste special packaging, containers, standards and warning signs of the provisions of the State Council administrative department of health and the administrative department of environmental protection **** with the development.