Aim: Medical waste generation was significantly increased during pandemic due to excessive use of face masks, plastic, syringes. Many countries successfully reduce medical (MW). The purpose this current study is highlight the management and treatment process MW so that personnel responsible for collecting, transporting disposing keep themselves as well environment safe help in reducing spreadin...

Abstract The new Waste Directive 2018/851/EU strengthens the role of waste prevention and emphasizes recycling to facilitate transition a circular economy. So far, it has not been legislatively necessary for Czech Republic look at from broader perspective, especially in healthcare, where management is perceived as separate process suitable outsourcing. With directive economy, becomes part strat...

BACKGROUND Health Care Waste (HCW) is considered as the second dangerous waste in the World that needs to be properly disposed by trained health care staff. Good knowledge, positive attitude and safe practices of medical staff is very imperative while managing this infectious waste. This assessment has been conducted to determine the situation and KAP of infectious waste management in health ca...

BACKGROUND Health care or biomedical waste, if not managed properly, can be of high risk to the hospital staff, the patients, the community, public health and the environment, especially in low and middle income settings where proper disposal norms are often not followed. Our aim was to explore perceptions of staff of an Indian rural tertiary care teaching hospital on hospital waste management....

Nowadays, there are many healthcare systems focused on the opti‐ mization and improvement of processes such as the generation of medical records and medical test reports. The interaction with this kind of systems is mainly done through user interfaces that demand the use of a keyboard or a mouse, which reduces the productivity of healthcare professionals. For example, pathological anatomy profe...

The term "triangle of death" was used for the first time by Senior and Mazza in the journal The Lancet Oncology referring to the eastern area of the Campania Region (Southern Italy) which has one of the worst records of illegal waste dumping practices. In the past decades, many studies have focused on the potential of illegal waste disposal to cause adverse effects on human health in this area....