• Kashish Gupta
• Dr. Ramesh Kumar Chaturvedi

The existence of diseases in human civilizations is since time immemorial. With time, advancement of technology took place and so the ways of disease diagnosis and treatment advanced. This advancement in medical field on one hand gave life and happiness to millions but on the other hand due to mismanagement of the waste reduced, it produced adverse effect on humans, animals and environment. So, it’s the need of hour that the Bio Medical Waste (BMW) should be managed safely and properly such that risk from this is minimised. Any waste generated during diagnosis, treatment or immunisation of human beings or animals is known as biomedical waste. It also includes waste produced during research or during biological testing which has toxic and infectious potential. Generally about 75%-85% biomedical waste produced by health care institutes is risk free. Only 10%-15% has potential to adversely affect humans, animals and environment. Though the percentage of risk factor is quite less as compared to risk free percent but still this can cause potent health hazards and environmental degradation. Thus, it is very crucial to ensure safe, effective and wise disposal of biomedical waste and this requires a proper biomedical waste management system.

Disease, environment, biomedical waste, diagnosis, treatment, immunization, biomedical waste management.

"Biomedical waste management in India: Current perspective", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.346-354, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905K46.pdf

"Biomedical waste management in India: Current perspective", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp346-354, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905K46.pdf