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The proper means of medical waste removal in South Miami requires the knowledge of how to do it and doing it in the right way.
There are two different types of medical wastes in hospitals and other health care facilities:
1. Non-infectious medical waste
2. Infectious medical waste
Non-Infectious Medical Waste
Any medical waste that doesn’t posses the ability to infect the handler or someone else is considered non-infectious waste. This type of medical waste usually doesn’t pose much danger to the public health, apart from a possible injury or cut during handling sharps such as needles, disposable scalpels, syringes and other similar material.
This medical waste includes bandages, sharps and other medical waste that hasn’t come in contact with infected blood or other material.
Non-infectious medical waste removal in South Miami can be done without sterilization. This is thanks to the fact that they can’t infect a person who might get in contact with them and so they pose no threat of this kind to the people.
Infectious Medical Waste
Infectious medical waste is a much greater issue than non-infectious on account that it can cause an infection to people who get in contact with it. Because of this, they are a great health hazard for the staff that handles them, so greater care must be taken with them.
In order to minimize the danger of someone getting infected, infectious medical waste first needs to be disinfected before it can be disposed of. This is done by trained and professional in-house or outsource staff.
The most common way of disinfecting this type of waste is via incineration. Using this method, the infectious waste is gathered, shredded and then put into an incinerator machine where it will be subjected to very high temperatures. The high temp inside the incinerator serves in the first place to destroy any pathogenic organism, or another infectious.
Sterilization is the process of exposing medical waste to high-pressurized steam using a steam sterilizer, or a machine called autoclave. This process causes microorganisms to be destroyed and the medical waste to be free of any infection.
Once medical waste has been properly sterilized, it is put into special containers, or sometimes in a special bag. Whichever is used, it has to be able to prevent any leakage of waste that is contained within. Once the medical waste is properly sealed in a container or a bag, it is then transported using specialized vehicles to the disposal area where it is often buried in the ground, or disposed in some other way.
The importance of properly removing medical waste, whether it is non-infectious or infectious cannot be emphasized enough. This type of waste can often pose a great danger not just to the staff of the health facility that generates them, the patients and visitors of that facility and the workers of the medical waste removal in South Miami service that handles them, but also to the general public if it is not properly disposed of.
