Biomedical Waste Management Practices in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Accordance With BMW Rules 2016

The amount of biomedical waste generated per day is increasing day by day with increase in the health care facilities. This paper presents an analysis study of the generation pattern of biomedical waste in different departments of the hospital and also to examine the process of collection, segregation and transport of different types of waste generated in different departments of the hospital in accordance with BMW rules 2016. Majority of anatomical waste is generated in operating rooms, followed by Cath-ward, EMD, Nephrology wards, Oncology. It is observed that dialysis units, EMD, OT’s, ICU’s, nephrology wards, are generating large amount of plastic waste. Colour coded bins were provided only in 77pc of wards, rest were lacking one / two bins. The segregation percentage was 55% which is very low. Hospital administrators may need to formulate and implement a plan for providing appropriate training to HCW’s especially nursing staff and workers so as to address the deficiencies observed in the study