Medical waste disposal is critical to healthcare management. Biomedical waste refers to any waste that contains infectious or potentially infectious materials. It is generated during various ...

CDSCO elaborates procedure to be followed by stakeholders for disposal of expired/unused drugs: Gireesh Babu, New Delhi Monday, June 2, 2025, 08:00 Hrs [IST] The Central Drugs Sta ...

Biomedical waste management has been a serious environmental issue the country has been facing for quite a long time now. The issue has been hitting the headlines for the last some decades as there ...

To protect human health and the environment, the Ministry of Environment and Forests had notified the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 under the Environment (Protection ...

and recycling of waste. Biomedical waste is generated during the diagnosis, treatment, and immunization of human beings or other living beings from healthcare facilities. Asia Pacific was the ...

Another big gap is to ensure that the full waste generated from each medical unit reaches the assigned waste disposal centre on time. Though Karnataka introduced a dedicated biomedical waste ...