Biomedical waste management- an overview

  • Dr.Rabindran Chandran Consultant, Neonatologist, Billroth Hospital, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Keywords: Biomedical waste, Colour-coding, Segregation

Abstract

Biomedical waste management system is poor in most of the hospital. There is urgent need to increase awareness related with this issue in all the hospital staff.

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Biomedical waste management- an overview
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DOI: 10.17511/ijmrr.2016.i11.01
Published: 2016-11-30
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Chandran R. Biomedical waste management- an overview. Int J Med Res Rev [Internet]. 2016Nov.30 [cited 2024Mar.28];4(11):1921-2. Available from: https://ijmrr.medresearch.in/index.php/ijmrr/article/view/742
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