Knowledge Assessment of Hospital Staff Regarding Biomedical Waste Management in A Tertiary Care Hospital

• Main Authors: Vishal Bathma (Author), Swarn K Likhar (Author), Mahesh K Mishra (Author), Arvind V Athavale (Author), Sanjay Agarwal (Author), Uma S Shukla (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medsci Publications, 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Biomedical waste (BMW) is waste generated during diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals. Approximately 10-25% of the Bio-Medical waste is hazardous and can be injurious to humans or animals and deleterious to environment. It is estimated that annually about 0.33...