Challenges and actions to the environmental management of Bio-Medical Waste during COVID-19 pandemic in India.

ABSTRACT: The outbreak of COVID-19 has engendered a global health crisis along with diverse impacts on economy, society and environment. Efforts to combat this pandemic have also significantly shot-up the quantity of Bio-medical Waste (BMW) generation. Safe disposal of large quantity of BMW has been gradually posing a major challenge. BMW management is mostly implemented at municipal level following regulatory guidelines defined by respective states and the Union. This article is a narrative of the status of BMW generation, management and regulation in India in the context of COVID-19 crisis. The article is based on comparative analysis of data on BMW generation and management from authentic sources, a systematic literature review and review of news reports. In the current pandemic situation where m

SUBMITTER: Goswami M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7962757 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature