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Biomedical Waste Generation and Management in Public Sector Hospital in Shimla City

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Biomedical waste disposal is very important due to its infectious nature. Proper management of biomedical waste is necessary for maintaining good human health and environment. Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) rules 1998 under the Environmental Protection Act, 1986 have been passed by government of India which is to be followed strictly to avoid menace. The purpose of the article is to differentiate between the Biomedical Waste Management practices such as collection, storage, transportation, and disposal along with the generation of biomedical waste undertaken in major public and private sector hospitals in Shimla city. A cross-sectional study and semi-structured interview considering the various biomedical waste management practices and personnel handling of the biomedical waste undertaken in the major public and private sector hospitals in Shimla city through detailed analysis and questionnaire prepared will be used for the purpose of study. The study will quantify the actual values and unveil the difference that lie in management procedures followed by these hospitals in Shimla. The present paper presents some initial findings of the questionnaire analysis carried out in a major public hospital in Shimla.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to express their gratitude to all doctors, nurses, staff, and workers of the hospitals for their great guidance, support and assistance. Their information and co-operation was valuable and inevitable.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, District Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Prachi Vasistha, Rajiv Ganguly & Ashok Kumar Gupta

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  1. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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  2. Department of Civil Engineering, AISECT University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Vasistha, P., Ganguly, R., Gupta, A.K. (2018). Biomedical Waste Generation and Management in Public Sector Hospital in Shimla City. In: Singh, V., Yadav, S., Yadava, R. (eds) Environmental Pollution. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 77. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5792-2_19

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