Download or read book Healthcare Waste rules and its Management and Handling in Delhi written by Laljee Verma and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, , language: English, abstract: Healthcare waste rules were promulgated in the year 1998, whereby the final cut-off date for instituting an effective system in hospitals was December 2002 but even in the middle of 2005 we find that the health care institutions are still grappling with the problem. The rues have been revised in 2016, with some amendments. Many initiatives have been taken but the situation still is not where one can say with confidence that healthcare wastes are disposed properly without adverse effect on the environment and without being a source of morbidity among the human population. Hospitals and nursing homes are mushrooming in any urban locality. We can take Delhi for example, where I have done some survey and study. Delhi has many health care units of all types, such as hospitals of all dimensions, nursing homes, large and small laboratories, blood banks, dental clinics, veterinary hospitals & clinics, dispensaries, and hospitals & units run on alternate system of medicine. There are about 40, 000 beds in Delhi in Govt and private sector. Quantity of waste generated is reported to range from mere 30 Gm per bed per day to 780 Gm per bed per day, with an average of 230 Gm per bed per day. These figures do not seem authentic since there is a very wide variation, and due to the fact that when segregation practices are not in vogue how can one be sure to have separately measured the healthcare waste. Therefore, these figures can at best be termed ‘guesstimates’. However, healthcare waste in Delhi would be approximately 9, 200 Kg per day. The actual figure may be higher considering many nursing homes are not registered.