How to correctly handle and transport medical wastes?

How to correctly handle and transport medical wastes?

Medical waste, also known as medical waste, refers to the polluting waste that comes into contact with patients' blood and body, such as used cotton balls, gauze, adhesive tapes, wastewater, disposable medical devices, discarded products after surgery, expired drugs, etc. Medical waste has the characteristics of space pollution, acute infection and potential pollution. The following is my knowledge about how to properly handle and transport medical waste. Welcome to reading.

Different treatment methods of medical waste

household garbage

The domestic garbage is collected by the power generation department, packed in black plastic bags, and filled with 3/4 full → bundled by the property personnel and sent to the temporary storage bucket → transported to the hospital garbage station by the property full-time transport personnel with leak-proof vehicles → transported away by the sanitation department for treatment.

Recyclable plastic waste

Recyclable plastic waste is collected by the production department, packed in brown plastic bags, and packed in 3/4 → property office staff send it to the ward for temporary storage → property full-time staff send it to the hospital for temporary storage → recycling company sends it away for treatment.

Glass waste

The glass waste is collected by the production department and put into a 3/4 full white plastic bag bucket → sent to the ward for temporary storage by the property office staff → sent to the hospital for temporary storage by the property full-time staff → handed over to the recycling company for processing.

Infectious garbage

(1) It is collected by the production department, put into a double-layer yellow plastic bag with leakproofness, and filled with 3/4 full → sent to the ward by the property office staff and temporarily stored in leakproofness barrels → sent to the hospital by the property professional staff, temporarily stored indoors → burned.

(2) High-risk wastes such as culture media, specimens, strains and virus preservation solution of pathogens in the laboratory are classified and collected → autoclaved in the department → treated as other infectious wastes.

(3) Sputum, sputum specimens of tuberculosis patients, polluted wastes after inspection by the clinical laboratory, and drainage fluid, hydrothorax and ascites of patients in various departments are collected by the production department, packed into special anti-leakage barrels → sent to the expectorant room by property personnel → boiled at high temperature for 30 minutes or mixed with 2000mg /L chlorine-containing disinfectant for 30 minutes, and the sewage is discharged into the sewage treatment system, and the residue is treated as domestic garbage.

radioactive waste

(1) solid waste: collected by the production department, packed in double-layer anti-leakage and non-proliferation red plastic bags, sealed with adhesive tape and stored in the storage room. After the half-life of 10, it will be treated as infectious garbage.

(2) Waste liquid: The generated waste liquid is discharged into a separate sewage pool through a special pipeline, and then discharged into the hospital sewage treatment system after degradation.

A sharp instrument/tool

Including syringes, infusion set needles, scalpels, scissors, tweezers, thermometers, etc. , collected by the production department, put into a special collection bucket to prevent leakage and puncture, sent to the temporary storage room by the property full-time staff, and transported away by the recycling company for processing.

chemical waste

Radioactive developer is discharged into the hospital sewage treatment system after it is produced. After the fixing solution is produced, it will be handed over to the recycling company in a special leak-proof bucket. Chemical reagents and liquid wastes from laboratories and pathological departments are discharged into the sewage system for treatment.

Pathological waste

The generated departments are classified and collected, handed over to the site property personnel, handed over to the mortuary management personnel, registered and signed, soaked and disinfected, and the General Affairs Department regularly sends people to funeral home cremation for processing.

waste water

Medical and domestic wastewater enters the sewage treatment station from the sewage system of the hospital. After precipitation, 25% sodium chlorite, 15% hydrochloric acid and 10% sodium hypochlorite are added, and chlorine dioxide is generated by a chlorine dioxide generator to treat and discharge the wastewater.

Transportation of medical waste

1 Transport personnel transport the classified and packaged medical wastes from the place where the medical wastes are generated to the medical waste treatment office for final disposal according to the specified time and route every day.

Before transporting medical wastes, the transport personnel shall check whether the marks, labels and seals of the packages or containers meet the requirements, and shall not transport medical wastes that do not meet the requirements to the disposal site; The garbage bag containing medical waste is yellow and marked. When 3/4 is full, the bag mouth should be tied tightly and replaced with a new bag.

When transporting medical waste, the transport personnel shall prevent the packaging or container from being damaged, prevent the leakage and diffusion of medical waste, and prevent the medical waste from directly contacting the human body.

4 Use a special medical waste transport vehicle to transport medical waste, and clean and disinfect the transport vehicle in time after delivery every day.

Personal protection should be done when transporting medical wastes to avoid medical wastes from harming the skin.

It is forbidden to transfer, buy or sell medical wastes, to pile medical wastes in non-temporary places, and to mix medical wastes with other wastes and domestic garbage.

7. In case of loss, leakage, diffusion and accident of medical waste, the head of the General Affairs Department and the head of the Hospital Infection Management Department shall be immediately reported.

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