There are three chapters which are related to epidemiology in contest to hospital.
These are ‘BMW’, ‘HIC’ and ‘House Keeping’
In this chapter we will discuss about ‘BMW’.
What is BMW? It is not the BMW car but ‘Bio Medical Waste’. It is the waste containing living cells which is generated in a hospital or laboratory having the potential of spreading infection.
How handling of such waste through a thought ful planning and implementation by a hospital in compliance to ‘BMW Rule’ is called its management.
Hospitals have the potentials of generating a large quantity of such waste on daily basis which needs to be scientifically segregated, collected and disposed off daily to prevent infection.
Therefore to ensure safety of staff, patient and the environment the Govt. has notified ‘Bio medical waste (‘Management & Handling rule’ 1998), under Environmental protection act 1986.
What is Biomedical waste, there classification how it is segregated, collected and to be disposed off have been presented in short in this presentation of ‘Bio Medical Waste Management’.
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