Abstract
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 began to explode on a large scale around the world, with medical and health institutions around the world are facing great pressure. During this period, medical institutions that treat patients with COVID-19 will also generate a large amount of medical waste. If not handled properly, infectious viruses will enter the environment and cause secondary pollution and new epidemic. Wuhan was the first city to have a large-scale outbreak during the outbreak. In the early stage of the outbreak, the relevant competent departments of medical and health institutions and medical waste disposal agencies in China quickly and timely issued a series of technical guidelines and Management measures to control secondary pollution of medical waste during COVID-19. This article analysed the medical waste disposal capacity in Wuhan city, Hubei Province and China at 2020, which also introduce the medical waste treatment measures taken in China during the outbreak, hoping to provide technical reference for other countries.
Highlights
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 began to explode on a large scale around the world, with medical and health institutions around the world are facing great pressure
China has established a basic framework for emergency medical waste disposal after SARS, it has faced many problems when responding to the new situation of medical waste disposal during the COVID-19 epidemic: for example, the emergency response mechanism is not complete and efficiency, the medical waste disposal system lacks effective supervision, the inter-departmental management coordination is insufficient, the collection and transportation system is imperfect, and even when the amount of medical waste surges, the disposal capacity
Since January 2020, NHC began to announce the status of confirmed COVID-19 patient cases daily [6], and China's medical waste disposal information is mainly published on the public website by MEE [7], including daily national medical waste collection volume, disposal volume, conventional and emergency disposal facility disposal capacity and other information
Summary
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 began to explode on a large scale around the world, with medical and health institutions around the world are facing great pressure. During this period, medical institutions that treat patients with COVID-19 will generate a large amount of medical waste [1]. China has established a basic framework for emergency medical waste disposal after SARS, it has faced many problems when responding to the new situation of medical waste disposal during the COVID-19 epidemic: for example, the emergency response mechanism is not complete and efficiency, the medical waste disposal system lacks effective supervision, the inter-departmental management coordination is insufficient, the collection and transportation system is imperfect, and even when the amount of medical waste surges, the disposal capacity. This article will analysis the Medical waste disposal capacity in China, introduce the Medical waste treatment measures taken in China during the outbreak, hoping to provide technical reference for other countries
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