edical waste management is one of the most common problem being faced among hospitals. There are different classifications and definitions being connected to medical wastes. World Health Organization (2017) classified eight distinct types of medical wastes that may pose threat when not being disposed and segregated properly. In addition, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (2017) also gave four types of as such that will also give a negative impact to the entire humanity. Medical wastes cover a broad aspect in which is needed to be chunked into pieces to fully understand effect it displays to the environment, as well as the people.
Further, improper medical wastes segregation imply lasting effect to different sectors in the world we step in. In fact, burning of as such will release toxic gases such as dioxins that will not only be visible in our time but also for the next years to come. Unethical practices might also lead to harmful diseases (Emmanuel, 2018). Also, Zafar (2016) pointed out the effects in the environment when the used medical gloves and the like will not be disposed in the way it should be. In addition, spread of contagious diseases might as well be observed as the chemical properties these wastes contain might be releases as improper practice had been followed. Moreover, people in and outside the hospital facilities are greatly affected to these unethical standards being implied (Akter N., et. al., 2002). Lastly, different diseases such as with regards to skin diseases, widespread of communicable diseases through carriers such as rodents, and diseases causing organisms will increase in number as the practice continues (Mathur, et. al., 2012).
Thus, with the studies and past researches it is clearly identifiable that sanitation workers play an essential role with regards to hospital administration. Sanitation workers must know the concepts and the way how to properly segregate wastes in accordance to the lawsuits being implemented by a certain place or by the laws in the hospital itself (Murnaghan, 2018). But with the researches being conducted, a very few knowledge with regards to medical wastes are observed to the people itself. Further, proper segregation was not observed to most of the hospitals giving a direct conclusion that the sanitation workers do not have a wide understanding and public knowledge on how to handle it. At the end, Madhukumar and Ramesh (2012) implies that trainings and seminars must be given to the workers. Thus, it briefly shows how the inadequacy of knowledge may also lead to diseases that which may lead to uncontrolled and cannot be solved epidemics of disease.
Various ways on how to clean such wastes are being explained. Thus, a common result have explained that most of the countries still cannot properly manage to handle as such wastes. Despite the fact that technologies are present as of the moment, it cannot assure and guarantee a complete and accurate process of disposing wastes properly (Obid, 2006). The value of properly handling of such wastes constitutes to health care protection among people. According to National Academy of Sciences (1989), hiring someone who is knowledgeable and capable enough of handling medical wastes must be the standard when it comes to choosing workers. Furthermore, understanding the techniques of handling wastes properly will lead to good facility working.
Further, different lawsuits have been created to protect the health of everyone, such law created contain objectives of promoting awareness to such wastes. Moreover, the implementation of laws that lets people become knowledgeable of the risks benefited most of the people for it contributed to new array of