Updates on biomedical waste management during COVID-19: The Indian scenario

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 out...

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Autores principales: Chand, Sharad, Shastry, C.S., Hiremath, Shivakumar, Joel, Juno J., Krishnabhat, C.H., Mateti, Uday Venkat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of INDIACLEN. 2021
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9393250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36032559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100715
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author Chand, Sharad
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-93932502022-08-22 Updates on biomedical waste management during COVID-19: The Indian scenario Chand, Sharad Shastry, C.S. Hiremath, Shivakumar Joel, Juno J. Krishnabhat, C.H. Mateti, Uday Venkat Clin Epidemiol Glob Health Review Article 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. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of INDIACLEN. 2021 2021-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9393250/ /pubmed/36032559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100715 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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