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This study reveals that most of the hospitals are lacking in bio-medical waste management system. These hospitals do not properly segregate the waste dispose of the bio-medical waste without any treatment. Hospital should have vigilance cells especially to monitor the handling and treatment of the waste but not working well. Waste should be segregated and treated as a bio-medical waste management and with handling rules, 1998. A series of programs should be organized for general public awareness and to make the employee of the healthcare facilities aware in the handling and management of bio-medical waste. It is observed that most of the hospitals have no management system in place. The hospital does not give priority to the proper disposal of the waste. Several methods of disposal of medical waste are proper dumping, burning, burial, selling, reuse, and removal by municipal trucks without any treatment. On the basis of detailed study and data collection from working hospitals, it can be assessed that total quantity of bio-medical waste generation in Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and other hospitals in Aligarh is about 750–850 kg/day.
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It gives me immense pleasure to owe my humble gratefulness to my supervisors and their generosity and interest to help me in all my endeavors. I am also thankful to Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, AMU, Aligarh, for the help and guidance. I am also thankful to all the hospitals which helped in collecting data and authors and publishers who gave us constant source of inspiration and support. I would also like to extend my thanks to all for helping me throughout the work.
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Alam, I., Alam, G., Ayub, S., Siddiqui, A.A. (2019). Assessment of Bio-medical Waste Management in Different Hospitals in Aligarh City. In: Kalamdhad, A., Singh, J., Dhamodharan, K. (eds) Advances in Waste Management . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0215-2_36
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