Management principles and methods of decontamination for biomedical waste and comparison between these methods in hospitals of Kermanshah province-Iran. A Systematic Review

Abstract. Biomedical waste is defined as the kind of wastes produced by medical and biological centers and due to its dangerous effects, it cannot be decontaminated the same way as other types of waste. Biomedical waste management is an approach that prioritize reducing these effects and includes the processes of production, storage, maintenance, transportation, and decontamination. These methods must be effective on overcoming the challenges threatening people and nature, such as air and groundwater pollution or the spread of pathogens that could cause diseases and endanger different species. In this paper, the main features of the concept of biomedical wastes were primarily introduced and the difficulties and challenges of reckless management were then discussed. In the main part of this research, the problems in most of Kermanshah waste sites were evaluated in detail and finally, an effective and optimal method to improve the control of biomedical waste management system was presented.

Keywords:

biomedical waste , biomedical waste management , biomedical waste treatment , on-site , off-site