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Updates on biomedical waste management during COVID-19: The Indian scenario
- Source :
- Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, Vol 11, Iss, Pp 100715-(2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2021.
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Abstract
- Biomedical waste poses various health and environmental hazards. Hence, it should be handled with the utmost care and disposed off safely. Several lacunas exist in the management of biomedical waste in India, and the pandemic posed by the coronavirus has made it even more challenging. The sudden outbreak of the virus led to an exponential rise in the quantity of biomedical waste. Furthermore, the poor infrastructure and lack of human resources have aggravated this situation. To combat this serious problem in a timely manner, the government has formulated various standard operating procedures and has amended the existing rules and guidelines.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Disease prevention
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Epidemiology
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Operating procedures
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Hospital waste
Pandemic
030212 general & internal medicine
Health hazards
Human resources
Government
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
Biomedical waste
Indian scenario
Infectious Diseases
Risk analysis (engineering)
Business
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22133984
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1acc045f3ea15e571b0048b229555c9a