Study of bio medical waste impacts on environmental health in Mysuru city, India

Clinical waste management system is a integrated procedure for monitoring, aggregating, assorting, accumulating, transporting, and discarding of clinical waste produced by an organization such as hospitals. Clinical waste constitutes various potential health and safety risks and hazards. In addition to their virulent and lethal features, the majorly unsteady and erratic nature of clinical waste streams has increased public concern about storage, treatment, transportation and ultimate disposal. The management of clinical waste is still in its genesis all over the nation. Today as of now, there is no substantial work done on medical waste management in several hospitals of Mysore city. Now, medical wastes are just mixed up with other domestic wastes and disposed crudely in municipal dumping sites. There is a lot of disorder along with plight among the operators, generators, and the general populace about the innocuous, uncontaminated management of clinical waste. This research paper finds environmental exposure and public health impact of poor medical waste treatment and disposal in Mysore city, based on several months of survey and finally proposes recommendations to the problems identified during the survey.