Analysis on Medical Waste Management and Disposal in Kunming City

Abstract:

Medical waste is a special category of waste with potential health and environment risks. Medical waste management and disposal is a difficult problem in the western China because the shortage of financial support. Kunming city was selected to assess the current achievement and experience of medical waste management and disposal. Kunming municipal government solved the problem of medical waste disposal by adopting the model of BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer). The analyzed results showed that there was a good achievement of medical waste disposal in Kunming city that medical waste disposal realized centralized and normalized disposal, and centralized disposal had amounted to one hundred percent in urban area since 2006. Medical waste disposal in Kunming city mainly includes three steps, that is,the sort and collection of respective medical institutions, the centralized collection and transport of Kunming Center for Medical Waste Centralized Disposal (KCMWCD) and incineration . Kunming municipal government approved franchise for Medical waste disposal. The government has strengthened the medical waste disposal by building the effective administrative monitoring system of medical waste, organizing some meetings and visiting the place of medical waste disposal for relevant person and training them, and imposing the medical waste disposal fee on medical institution.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 878)
• Pages: 532-538
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.878.532
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Cheng Qiu, Chun Li Ye, Chang Bing Ye
• Keywords: Disposal, Government, Kunming, Management, Medical Institutions, Medical Wastes

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