Medical Waste Disposal Articles
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Khayelitsha District Hospital - South Africa - Case Study
Khayelitsha District Hospital opened in February 2012. It offers district level care including a large 24-hour Emergency Centre as well as medical wards, surgical wards, obstetric wards, gynecology wards, pediatric wards and nursery. In 2016 it purchased Newster equipment for the treatment and disposal of infectious medical waste. Dr. L. Angeletti-Du Toit, Chief Director: facilities and ...
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Management of Medical and Hospital Waste
Shredding Solutions for Medical and Hospital Waste Treatment and Disposal The management of medical and hospital waste is regulated by complex legislation, aimed at protecting operators and reducing disposal risks. The European Waste Catalogue (EWC), implemented in Italy since 2002 through a Directive of the Ministry of the Environment, classifies medical waste into different categories: ...
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Pharmaceutical and Medical Sector Waste Review Service
Pharmaceutical manufacturing plants generate a variety of waste streams throughout the production, supply and organisational processes. While the day-to-day activities are similar from one plant to the next, the actual processes used in pharmaceutical manufacturing vary widely. The pharmaceutical industry is highly competitive and many organisations are often unwilling to reveal details that ...
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Managing medical waste technology: how US hospitals adapted to change
A total of 78 US hospitals responded to a survey in a nation-wide sample for the purpose of analysing their medical waste technology management practices under changing laws and regulations in the early 1990s. Findings show that 77% of these hospitals implemented changes in one or more of their operations in storage, treatment, handling, transport and disposal of medical waste and staff ...
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