Assessment of COVID-19 vaccination-related medical waste management practices in Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic forces people to be vaccinated as early as possible. The COVID-19 vaccination program certainly raised the medical waste volume all over the world, including in Bangladesh. Numerous recent reports showed a fragile medical waste management system in Bangladesh; during the pandemic, the situation became worse. In addition, the nation-wide ongoing COVID-19 vaccination processes have been posing an extra burden to the existing biomedical waste management in the country. Failing to proper management of this waste might be a threat to human and environmental health. Therefore, the study investigated the current COVID-19 vaccine waste management practices in Bangladesh and made a comparison to the proposed standard operating procedures of international organizations and vacc

SUBMITTER: Rayhan MRI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387846 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature