How should medical waste be treated?

How to treat medical waste is as follows:

job operation

related personnel

1. Direct producer: the first-level processing is simple. Such as: soaking in disinfectant, etc.

2. Designated person in charge of the hospital: secondary treatment. Such as: packaging.

3. Full-time personnel: they can be appointed by the sanitation department or the health department, and their duties are to do thorough and harmless treatment.

Special commodity

1. Special plastic bag: yellow. Domestic garbage is prohibited. Only medical garbage, such as dressings, can be filled.

2. Special trash can: yellow, no domestic garbage, only medical garbage, such as syringes.

3. Special container: It is forbidden to store other articles, only medical wastes, such as chemical reagents, etc.

The scope of medical waste includes: discarded testing and medical supplies such as cotton swab sticks, protective clothing, masks and gloves used by testing personnel and medical personnel; The water bottle that covers your hand on the collection platform belongs to medical waste, and the water bottle pours water into the medical waste garbage bag; Protective equipment for volunteers, transporters and other staff.

Special attention: leftover food and water bottles in the lounge belong to domestic garbage. Don't put medical waste in garbage bags.

Requirements for medical waste transportation: Medical waste should be transported to the small yellow medical waste trash can at the inspection site, and the trash can must be covered with a special yellow packaging bag for medical waste.

Requirements for medical waste packaging bags: Medical waste packaging bags should be special yellow polyethylene (PE) packaging bags with required thickness. Double-wrap, double-bind and double-disinfect the gooseneck to ensure that the package is firmly bound without leakage, damage and perforation, and then put it into the yellow medical waste turnover box. If the packaging bag is damaged or medical waste is scattered, it needs to be disinfected again.

Requirements for medical waste transfer: Medical waste from all sampling points will be transported to medical waste collection points with production, and the packaging volume of medical waste will be reduced as much as possible to increase the transfer volume of medical waste. Transporters should be well protected and handle with care to avoid the risk of medical waste spillage caused by throwing and throwing. Measures such as sealing and leakage prevention should be taken during transportation.

Requirements for temporary storage of medical wastes: In principle, medical wastes should be placed in a closed room with a yellow turnover box. It is forbidden to store medical wastes in the open air or directly bury them.

Other requirements

1. It is forbidden to store medical wastes in the open air, directly land them, mix them with other items, and use temporary facilities such as tents as collection points.

2. Before testing, ensure that all materials are complete, including yellow trash cans, special packaging bags for medical wastes, bandaging tapes, disinfection supplies, etc.

3. After the nucleic acid detection is completed at the sampling point, ensure that all medical wastes are transported to the medical waste collection point, and disinfect the temporary storage point of medical wastes every time.

4. After all medical wastes are removed from the medical waste collection point, the collection point shall be disinfected.