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AB - International Journal of Education and Science, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2020 facility type and specialization profile. Every medical ABSTRACT institution should have a well-organized medical waste UDC: 614.7:504.5:628.47:61 management system, considering the waste category. DOI: 10.26697/ijes.2020.2.35 Medical staff should be well trained, have skills of healthcare waste management and be able to use new Medical Waste and Its Negative Impact on technologies. There are different methods of medical waste disposal: incineration, pyrolysis, microwave the Epidemiological and Environmental irradiation, thermo-chemical waste treatment and steam Safety sterilization. The United Nations has prioritized a method of steam sterilization (autoclaving) over other Lecturer Iarmak T. V. methods for medical waste disposal and viewed it as Municipal Health Care Institution “Kharkiv Regional one of the most advanced technology. It is a low- Medical College”, Ukraine temperature process, which reduces the amount of waste up to 85% due to a simultaneous grinding and Background: sterilization. The utilizer kills all types of pathogens, The problem of medical waste collection, disinfection including spore-forming bacteria, making it impossible and disposal is an issue of great concern worldwide. It to reuse. Thus, it converts category B infectious waste jeopardizes the health of medical staff, patients and into epidemiologically and 
TI - Medical Waste and Its Negative Impact on the Epidemiological and Environmental Safety
JF - International Journal of Education and Science
DO - 10.26697/ijes.2020.2.35
DA - 2020-01-01
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