Healthcare Waste Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Healthcare Waste Management (subject code ME02031101) as prescribed for BE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 24 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME02031101)Unit 1 Introduction & Importance of Healthcare Waste Management
- Definition and Types of Healthcare Waste
- Sources and Generation of health-care waste
- Importance of Proper Healthcare Waste Management Categories and Characteristics of Healthcare Waste: Overview of hazards
- types of hazards
- Global and Indian Scenario: public health impact
Unit 2 Biomedical waste storage and transport of health-care
- Steps involved in Bio-medical Waste Management
- : Guiding principles
- Segregation systems
- Interim storage
- On-Site and Off-Site Transportation Techniques
- Central storage
Unit 3 Biomedical waste Treatment and disposal methods as per BMWM
- 2016: Waste Segregation
- storage and Transportation
- Treatment and disposal methods
Unit 4 Management requirement
- Roles & Responsibility of Healthcare Facility
- Reporting to State Pollution Control Board or Pollution Control Committee
- Occupational Safety
- Employee Health Check Up, Immunization
- Training of Healthcare Workers
- Budget Allocation for Bio Medical Waste Management
Unit 5 Out Reach Activities and responsibility
- Steps for Bio Medical Waste Management for Out Reach Activities
- Bio-Medical Waste Management by Occasional Waste Generators Management of other BM wastes: Management of general waste
- management of other wastes like batteries
- Radioactive Wastes