Abstract
Biomedical waste management (BMWM) is a major environmental health concern. Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic came as bolt from the blue for governance with negligible preparedness. Pandemic COVID-19 has led to generation of solid waste in large volumes. Such BMW is an additional challenge in COVID-19 situation for healthcare facilities supplementary to COVID-19 pandemic management, control and prevention strategies. Centre for Pollution Control Board (CPCB) issued guidelines for COVID-19 related BMW waste in 3rd week of March 2020 and subsequently revised the same on 25th March 2020 and then on 18th April 2020. Scenario becomes compounded with less literate workers handling BMW required to develop newer competencies with deficient training and timeframe. Lots has been done to prepare COVID-19 related BMW waste management and lots still needs to be done to cover all the guidelines including practicality of implementation and ensuring less compromise on quality healthcare. This article focuses to review the COVID-19 related revised BMW requirements and their critical appraisal.
Highlights
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic came as bolt from the blue for governance with negligible preparedness
Barriers exist to competencies development among ground staff on account of their reluctance, deficient training programs, time constraints, and continually changing guidelines
Infectious waste generated by an asymptomatic person during incubation period: As per the statistics, more than 80% population getting infected shall be asymptomatic and may not require even medical advice[8]
Summary
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic came as bolt from the blue for governance with negligible preparedness. Policymakers have been making sincere efforts to frame the situationally appropriate guidelines and updating them more frequently Such newly framed guidelines need to be translated and reframed in such a manner which is understandable by the least literate ground staff. There is a need for development of master trainer program, followed by ground staff orientation programs This needs to be done at a speed higher than speeding COVID-19 spread. Barriers exist to competencies development among ground staff on account of their reluctance, deficient training programs, time constraints, and continually changing guidelines. Such barriers can lead to ground staff leading to unintentional infection spread
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