Medical waste generated by the world health organization

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PROJECT PROPOSAL
Abstract:
Every person living in this world is dependent on essential medical care for the wellness
of health and life, but over thousands of years of practice and scientific advancement medical
industry now generates tones of waste every year and is disposed oftentimes in an unsafe
manner. According to a fact sheet provided by the world health organization, in 2018, 15% of the
medical waste generated worldwide is harmful to living beings. The research aims to analyze the
literature review as secondary data and study the general effects of medical waste on the
population and conduct social survey in fifty hospitals to find out the current condition of the
medical waste management in United Kingdom.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Research Aim:.................................................................................................................................3
Literature review:.............................................................................................................................3
Hazards of Medical waste:...........................................................................................................3
Untreated Medical Waste disposal into the Environment Causing Antibiotic Resistance:.........4
Possible threats from dental waste:..............................................................................................4
Mutagen disposal:........................................................................................................................5
Research Methodology:...................................................................................................................5
Study of Secondary data:.............................................................................................................5
Survey to observe the current condition in hospitals:..................................................................5
Interviewing the hospital staffs and patients:..............................................................................6
Public Campaign to create awareness:........................................................................................6
Data Analysis:..............................................................................................................................7
Ethical considerations:.....................................................................................................................7
Research outcome:...........................................................................................................................8
Table 1: Time required for the research..........................................................................................8
References:......................................................................................................................................9

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PROJECT PROPOSAL
Introduction:
Medical waste is defined as the type of disposable waste that is generated from healthcare
facilities and medical research facilities as well as laboratories. This kind of waste is generally
contaminated with infectious diseases, blood or body fluids expelled from an ailing patient.
Medical waste also consists of sharp objects that are used in these medical laboratory and
facilities which have the potential to injure people if disposed without proper treatment (Phillips
et al. 2013). Management of such waste is very important as these waste have a potential to start
a bio-hazardous epidemic. About 15 % of the medical waste generated every year is harmful to
living beings, according to a report provided by the World Health Organization (World Health
Organization, 2018). There have been a few incidents in the Untitled Kingdom due to untreated
poor medical waste disposal practice in the past, like the Corby toxic waste case, Aberfan
disaster and Spodden Valley asbestos controversy recently. The main aim of this research is to
develop a plan of action to study the effects of medical waste in the country for further
investigation.
Research Aim:
The aim of this research is to study the effect of poor waste management practices in the
United Kingdom and derive a potential treatment method to manage medical wastes.