medical waste

medical waste,

any discarded biologic product such as blood or tissue removed from operating rooms, morgues, laboratories, or other medical facilities. The term may also be applied to bedding, bandages, syringes, and similar materials that have been used in treating patients and to animal carcasses or body parts used in research. Medical waste is regulated at the state and local levels.

medical waste,

n a discarded biologic product, such as blood or tissues, removed from operating rooms, morgues, laboratories, or other medical facilities. The term may also be applied to bedding, bandages, syringes, and similar materials that have been used in treating patients, as well as animal carcasses or body parts used in research. See also waste products, biohazard.

medical waste disposal,

n the safe and proper handling of medical waste, prescribed by statute and institutional policy and designed to prevent cross contamination, reinfection, and transmission of disease.

medical waste

Public health Any waste–regardless of whether it is potentially infectious–generated as a result of Pt diagnosis and treatment. See Hospital waste, Infectious waste, Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988.

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Byline: Mohammed Zaatari Summary: Large amounts of medical waste piled up on the Sidon beach Wednesday as rubbish slid from the city dump into the sea.

Syringes plague Sidon beach as dump spills medical waste by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)

signed a partnership agreement with Green Planet to launch Wekaya, a medical waste company, on Monday.

Sharjah to Have Medical,C?Waste Treatment Facility by Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

A few days later, in the southeast of the country, Al-Ahsa Mayor Fahad Al-Qahtani received complaints from residents about medical waste buried in the local graveyard.

Medical waste poses serious problem by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

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