Insights into Healthcare-based Waste

Global Challenges of COVID Era

Abstract

Globally, Covid-19 era, affects heavily to the whole world. In this timespan a huge increase in medical-usable products resulted into increase in healthcare-wastes which creates many types health related concerns worldwide. Medical-based wastes includes needles, scalpels, razors and broken glasses. Pathological Waste & Human or animal tissue, body parts, blood and fluids. Pharmaceutical Waste & Unused and expired drug or medicines, like creams, pills, antibiotics. Out of these, there are certain kind of particulars that may cause carcinogenicity, especially embedded-drugs, biochemical reagents and solvents etc. So, the treatment with scientific technologies and methodologies is essentially required. This paper overviews the environmental impact of healthcare-waste and related carcinogenic waste and their adverse consequences of handling and disposal methodologies.