Waste sorting equipment of medical institutions in Guangzhou

Medical waste refers to the wastes that are directly or indirectly infectious, toxic and other hazards generated by medical institutions in medical treatment, prevention, health care and other related activities, including infectious, pathological, destructive, pharmaceutical and chemical wastes. These wastes contain a lot of bacteria and viruses, which have certain characteristics of space pollution, acute viral infection and latent infection. If management is not strengthened and discarded at will, it will be mixed with domestic garbage and dispersed into people's living environment, polluting the atmosphere, water, land, animals and plants and causing the spread of diseases. Seriously endanger people's physical and mental health. With the increasing awareness of environmental protection today, protecting the environment is the responsibility and obligation of every citizen. At present, there are many technologies that can be used for medical waste disposal, among which high-temperature incineration can completely ensure the environmental protection requirements of medical waste stabilization, safety, reduction and harmlessness, and also conform to the development trend of contemporary medical waste disposal. In addition, the sanitation department started the management and treatment of medical wastes in the mid-1990s, set up specialized institutions and equipped with full-time personnel, regularly collected and centrally disposed medical wastes in medical institutions, and gradually improved the management system of the pollution control process of medical wastes, which can be strictly implemented in accordance with relevant national standards and technical specifications in the whole process of medical waste treatment.

English name: Medicalwaste

The Classification Catalogue of Medical Wastes classifies medical wastes into five categories:

1. Infectious waste refers to medical waste that carries pathogenic microorganisms and has the risk of causing the spread of infectious diseases, including articles contaminated by patients' blood, body fluids and excreta, and garbage generated by patients with infectious diseases;

2. Pathological waste refers to human excreta and medical experimental animal carcasses produced in the process of diagnosis and treatment, including discarded human tissues produced in the process of operation, discarded human tissues after pathological sections, pathological wax blocks, etc.

3. Hazardous waste refers to abandoned medical sharp instruments that can stab or cut human body, including medical needles, scalpels, scalpels, glass test tubes, etc.

4 pharmaceutical waste refers to abandoned, eliminated, deteriorated or contaminated drugs, including abandoned ordinary drugs, abandoned cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs;

5. Chemical waste refers to toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals, such as waste chemical reagents, chemical disinfectants, mercury sphygmomanometer, mercury thermometer, etc. The general chemical reagents and disinfectants discarded in the laboratory are discharged into the sewer. Classified, bagged and collected, and recycled by special personnel. Disposal method: incineration that can burn. High-risk wastes such as culture media, specimens and strains of pathogens in medical wastes should be autoclaved or chemically disinfected, and then collected and treated as infectious wastes. Domestic garbage (except those discarded by infected patients) can be treated as ordinary domestic garbage.