MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT IN KAZAKHSTAN

Serikkyzy, А. and Almabekova, A.A. MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT IN KAZAKHSTAN. Scientific-Practical Journal of Medicine, "Vestnik KazNMU". ISSN 2524 - 0692

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Abstract

Medical waste management is a World Wide actual problem. There are 16 billion injections occurred in the World by statistics of World Health organization, 2019[1] and all this injections done by syringes, which are only one of the stuffs of health caring facilities. It pushes to the fact that medical waste emerges equivalently often as household waste. However the system of medical waste management mostly includes same steps, but condition and stability of it different, because of country developing level. During this research there was identified that waste disposal in Kazakhstan on poor condition. There are many natural dumps, where you can easily find some medical facilities on the landfill that is not concerned to garbage. Moreover disposal of medical waste includes two ways, burning of them and instillation they are ecological harmful and can lead to hazardous consequences connected with public health and environmental issues. The alternative way to prevent this problem is recycling and exchanging with experience of developed country.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Medical waste, recycling, ecological harmful, disposal, Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), toxic gases, Mottainai idea.
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions:	Научно-практический журнал "Вестник КазНМУ" > Выпуск №4 2016 год
Depositing User:	Mr Askhat Zhakaev
Date Deposited:	05 Feb 2021 04:34
Last Modified:	05 Feb 2021 04:34
URI:	http://repository.kaznmu.kz/id/eprint/16111

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