Biomedical waste management in Ayurveda hospitals – current practices and future prospectives

Biomedical waste management is an integral part of traditional and contemporary system of health care. The paper focuses on the identification and classification of biomedical wastes in Ayurvedic hospitals, current practices of its management in Ayurveda hospitals and its future prospective. Databas...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of ayurveda and integrative medicine Jg. 10; H. 3; S. 214 - 221
Hauptverfasser: Rajan, Renju, Robin, Delvin T., M., Vandanarani
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Elsevier B.V 01.07.2019
Elsevier Limited
Elsevier
Schlagworte:
Arsenic
Ayurveda biomedical waste
Ayurvedic medicine
Biomedical waste
Biomedical waste management
bioremediation
Cytotoxicity
Ecosystem
Environmental impact
Health care
Health care waste
health services
Heavy metals
Hospitals
hygiene
Injuries
Landfill
landfills
Medical technology
Medical wastes
microorganisms
Pharmacy
Review
sewage
solar energy
Traditional system
waste disposal
Waste management
Waste management industry
Biomedical waste management
Health care waste
Traditional system
Biomedical waste
Ayurveda biomedical waste
Ecosystem
ISSN:0975-9476, 0976-2809
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Zusammenfassung:Biomedical waste management is an integral part of traditional and contemporary system of health care. The paper focuses on the identification and classification of biomedical wastes in Ayurvedic hospitals, current practices of its management in Ayurveda hospitals and its future prospective. Databases like PubMed (1975–2017 Feb), Scopus (1960–2017), AYUSH Portal, DOAJ, DHARA and Google scholar were searched. We used the medical subject headings ‘biomedical waste’ and ‘health care waste’ for identification and classification. The terms ‘biomedical waste management’, ‘health care waste management’ alone and combined with ‘Ayurveda’ or ‘Ayurvedic’ for current practices and recent advances in the treatment of these wastes were used. We made a humble attempt to categorize the biomedical wastes from Ayurvedic hospitals as the available data about its grouping is very scarce. Proper biomedical waste management is the mainstay of hospital cleanliness, hospital hygiene and maintenance activities. Current disposal techniques adopted for Ayurveda biomedical wastes are – sewage/drains, incineration and land fill. But these methods are having some merits as well as demerits. Our review has identified a number of interesting areas for future research such as the logical application of bioremediation techniques in biomedical waste management and the usage of effective micro-organisms and solar energy in waste disposal.
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ISSN:0975-9476
0976-2809
DOI:10.1016/j.jaim.2017.07.011