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    Hospital waste includes waste produced during healthcare activities such as treating, diagnosing, and researching patients or animals. Most hospital waste (75-90%) is non-hazardous general waste, while 10-15% is hazardous waste. Exposure to hazardous healthcare waste can cause disease, injury, or death as it may contain infectious agents, toxic chemicals, radioactive materials, or sharp objects. The waste poses risks such as transmitting diseases like HIV and hepatitis, chemical intoxication from inhalation, genetic damage, radiation sickness, and cancer.

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    Hospital waste includes waste produced during healthcare activities such as treating, diagnosing, and researching patients or animals. Most hospital waste (75-90%) is non-hazardous general waste, while 10-15% is hazardous waste. Exposure to hazardous healthcare waste can cause disease, injury, or death as it may contain infectious agents, toxic chemicals, radioactive materials, or sharp objects. The waste poses risks such as transmitting diseases like HIV and hepatitis, chemical intoxication from inhalation, genetic damage, radiation sickness, and cancer.

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    Hospital Waste Management: Vijeesh T.S Assistant Professor KLE College of Pharmacy Bengaluru-10

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    Hospital waste includes waste produced during healthcare activities such as treating, diagnosing, and researching patients or animals. Most hospital waste (75-90%) is non-hazardous general waste, while 10-15% is hazardous waste. Exposure to hazardous healthcare waste can cause disease, injury, or death as it may contain infectious agents, toxic chemicals, radioactive materials, or sharp objects. The waste poses risks such as transmitting diseases like HIV and hepatitis, chemical intoxication from inhalation, genetic damage, radiation sickness, and cancer.

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    HOSPITAL WASTE MANAGEMENT

    Vijeesh T.S
    Assistant Professor
    KLE College of Pharmacy
    Bengaluru-10
    DEFINITION
    • Hospital waste are the waste produced in the
    course of health care activities during
    Treating, Diagnosing and Immunizing Human
    being or animals or while doing
    Study/Research activities.
    • 75-90% Non-Hazardous/General Waste
    • 10-15% -Hazardous
    Health hazards from health care waste
    Exposure to hazardous health-care waste can
    resulting disease or injury because:
    • It contains infectious agents.
    • It is genotoxic.
    • It contains toxic chemicals or pharmaceuticals.
    • It is radioactive.
    • It contains sharp.
    • It contains carcinogenic agents and gaseous
    chemicals.
    Health hazards from health care waste
    1. Hazards from infectious waste and sharps
    • HIV, hepatitis B &C, microbial resistance
    2. Hazards from chemical and pharmaceutical
    waste
    • Intoxication, shock due to
    inhalation
    3. Hazards from genotoxic waste
    • Gentoxic effects, affects genetic materials
    Health hazards from health care waste
    4. Hazards from radioactive waste
    • Headache, dizziness, vomiting,
    • unconsciousness and also genotoxic effects.

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