Operational sort for treatment with waste from medical equipment Faculty hospital in Prague

Medical equipments offer two groups of waste: specific waste from medical equipments (medical staff handle with this waste) communal waste and such like this waste (cleaning company handle with this waste) Specific waste from medical equipments sort by law n. 185/2001 Sb., about waste, notice n. 376/2001 Sb., to the following groups and kinds of waste.

Group of specific waste from medical equipments divide in next sort:

sharp subjects, e.g.: grouting points, scalpels, glass, cannulas, infusion sets etc.sharp subjects, e.g.: grouting points, scalpels, glass, cannulas, infusion sets etc. pathologic-anatomical waste, e.g.: human tissues, infective and non- infective, blood or other human liquid, contaminated material, rests of cleaning, etc.pathologic-anatomical waste, e.g.: human tissues, infective and non- infective, blood or other human liquid, contaminated material, rests of cleaning, etc. the other waste with special demands, e.g.: waste from infective departments including rests of food, surgical materials, waste from laboratories, used hospital pillows, sheets of linen, biologically contaminated waste, bandage material, plaster bandages, protective tools for tsaff ect.the other waste with special demands, e.g.: waste from infective departments including rests of food, surgical materials, waste from laboratories, used hospital pillows, sheets of linen, biologically contaminated waste, bandage material, plaster bandages, protective tools for tsaff ect. eliminated chemicals and not-used pharmaceuticals, e.g.: pharmaceutical products, which were damaged or if they have consumer time-limit ect.eliminated chemicals and not-used pharmaceuticals, e.g.: pharmaceutical products, which were damaged or if they have consumer time-limit ect. Dangerous waste (D)

waste without specific demands, this waste is comparable with common communal waste -wholly from non- infective departments e.g.: rests of food, cleaning material, office waste, paper, rests of helping, subjects of bins, textile waste ect.waste without specific demands, this waste is comparable with common communal waste -wholly from non- infective departments e.g.: rests of food, cleaning material, office waste, paper, rests of helping, subjects of bins, textile waste ect. The other(O)

During the functioning of the hospital FH and its premises come up following sorts of waste: aquatic solution of lamps (D)aquatic solution of lamps (D) solution of fixatives (D)solution of fixatives (D) mixture of lipid and oil from clearings (D)mixture of lipid and oil from clearings (D) stabilized filth from cleaning communal waste water (O)stabilized filth from cleaning communal waste water (O) fluor tube or the other waste with contain of quicksilver (D)fluor tube or the other waste with contain of quicksilver (D) mixed communal waste (O)mixed communal waste (O) filth from septicsfilth from septics

Disposal with waste in medical equipments produce specific health adventure, because it can contain infective and toxic subject. That is why each case is necessary to mark:sort of waste, the date and place of origin. The system of colored sacks (blue, green and red) is by law adequate, only sharp subjects are saved into plastic bottles then are put into red sacs.

Use of coloured sacks:

blue- mixed communal wasteblue- mixed communal waste green- dangerous waste, (bologically contaminated waste)green- dangerous waste, (bologically contaminated waste) red- dangerous waste, liquidation wholly by burning, (pathologic- anatomical waste, sharp subjekts in closed plastic bottles.)red- dangerous waste, liquidation wholly by burning, (pathologic- anatomical waste, sharp subjekts in closed plastic bottles.)

Every waste of sevral workplaces (departments) is abolished every day into iron-plate penth-houses at several pavilons, or on put up agreed places. Staff of cleaning companies abolish blue sacks, sanetaries abolish green and red sacs. Special companies take away and clear waste from area of the hospital.