Status of biomedical waste and their possible public health risks with controlling measures in the jhansi city, bundelkhand region, India: A case study

The biomedical wastes generated from various hospitals in he Jhansi city are going to inversely impacts on environment and potentially alarming the spreading of hazardous infections due to indiscriminate and unscientific management posses serious threats to human health. Hospitals have no mention of worker’s safety, training, operation and monitoring activities. The rag pickers and waste workers are often worst affected, because unknowingly or unwittingly, they rummage through all kinds of poisonous material by trying to salvage items which they can self for reuse. At the same time, this kind of illegal and unethical reuse can be extremely dangerous and even fatal. Diseases like cholera, plague, tuberculosis, hepatitis; AIDS, diphtheria etc occur in either epidemic or even endemic form poses grave public health risks. Author has attempt of critically review and effective current biomedical waste management practices followed by some selected Jhansi’s hospital with regrets to the chain of environmental and health risks.