Biohazard Transportation
The term
“medical waste” can cover a wide variety of different byproducts of the
healthcare industry. The broadest definition can include office paper and
hospital sweeping waste. Biohazard Transportation The list below
displays the most common waste categories as identified by the WHO. There are
several medical waste disposal methods healthcare providers can choose from.
The first question is where the waste gets disposed of: on-site or off-site?
The second is how the waste gets transported if it’s disposed of off-site. The
on-site treatment of medical waste is generally limited to large, well-monied
hospitals and facilities. On-site treatment is extremely cost-prohibitive.
That’s because the required equipment is expensive to buy, expensive to
maintain, and expensive to manage and run. The regulatory maze around such
equipment (and its use) presents yet another barrier to entry. Healthcare waste
is all the waste generated by healthcare facilities, medical laboratories and
biomedical research facilities, as well as waste from minor or scattered
sources. Although hospitals produce the bulk of healthcare waste by volume,
they are a small fraction of the total number of sources.
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