Review of Related Literature

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some bearings and relevance to the present study.

Biomedical Waste Management Formatted: Font: Bold

Biomedical waste is a hazardous waste either solid or liquid

that contains potentially infectious materials that is generated

by the any healthcare facilities such as hospitals, clinics,

laboratories, health camps etc. This waste potentially contains

human tissues, contaminated blood, body fluids,

unwanted microbiological cultures and stocks, identifiable body

parts, discarded medicines, drugs, contaminated cotton,

dressings, and sharps such as needles, glass, blades, scalpels.

According to the Ppresidential Ddecree Nno. 856 "The Ccode on

Ssanitation of the Philippines" this mandates the different

healthcare facilities to promote and preserve public health and

upgrade the standard of medical practice. In line with this DOH

publishes a manual on hospitals management recommending color-

coding scheme for segregated wastes to avoid any accidents or

hazards to its personnel. Who gave this definition. 1st part Formatted: Superscript
Ramboojh et.al. (2014), revealed that due to lack of education

and awareness, trained personnel and paucityscarcity of funds

available to create a proper waste management system of a

certain healthcare facility, there will be a severely lacking in

actions to dispose of its waste and uphold its command

responsibilities. Moreover, tThe hospital should also undertake a

detailed risk assessment of the waste. A policy needs to be

formulated based on ‘reduce, reuse, recover and dispose’.

Gupta A. (2014) recommends that the hospital should institute an

efficient Sharps Management System, including proper equipment

and containers at all sharps generating points, a secure

accounting and collection system for transporting the

contaminated sharps for treatment and final disposal and the

proper training of hospital staff on the handling and management

of sharps. Proper training is necessary to develop awareness of

health, safety and environment issues.

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