Chemical Waste Management in Hospital; Impact on Environment and Health
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This article discusses the chemical management of wastewater in hospitals. Liquid waste is all wastewater including feces originating from hospital activities which may contain pathogenic microorganisms, toxic chemicals and radioactive substances that are harmful to health. Therefore, the potential impact of hospital wastewater on public health is very large, so each hospital is required to treat its wastewater until it meets the applicable standard requirements. Good wastewater management is not only for sharp medical wastes but covers hospital waste as a whole. With the increasing number of health service facilities, it will result in an increasing potential for environmental pollution, because waste disposal activities, especially waste water, will contribute to decreasing the level of human health. Hospital waste is all waste generated from hospital activities in the form of solid, liquid and gas. It is better if hospital waste has a waste storage and treats the waste first before discharging it into the environment, so that the environment is not polluted and the government should build a monitoring system.
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