EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF MEDICAL WASTE AND ITS INCREASE AFTER COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- Title
- EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF MEDICAL WASTE AND ITS INCREASE AFTER COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- Creator
- Sharma B.; Sailaja M.; Bansal R.; Soujanya K.; Nerlekar T.; Acharjee P.B.; Rajagopal R.
- Description
- Medical waste is a special course of harmful contaminants. Improper treatment would cause tributary environmental pollution, expressly when countering to communal health tragedies. However, there are quite few explores on the peer group of medical waste, and there is a deficiency of basic considerate of its spatial-temporal heterogeneity. The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic estimation of the effectiveness of these incongruous discarding procedures in expressions of water eminence and wellbeing. The research is centred on municipal areas characterised by vital medical waste production, which has the probable to taint groundwater and water sources. A complex approach is exploited in the procedure, which comprises of water sample collection, laboratory analysis, field surveys, and GIS-based spatial mapping. Medical waste disposal hotspots, such as healthcare facilities, waste collection points, and disposal sites, will be acknowledged through field surveys. Inspects will be showed on water samples poised from a variability of sources, including lakes, rivers, and groundwater wells, to find pathogens, medical residues, heavy metals, and organic pollutants, which are all gauges of medical waste contamination. The test centre analysis will utilise chic policies to portion the deliberation of pollutants in water samples, thereby gauging the likely hazards they pose to marine ecosystems and human health. Longitudinal visualisation of uncleanness distribution through GIS-based mapping facilitates the credentials of vulnerable areas and potential pathways for pollutant transport. The findings of this research will offer significant helps to our understanding of the extent of environmental deterioration resulting from the inadequate disposal of medical refuse into urban water sources. The results of this study will provide valuable insights for the creation of alertness campaigns, regulatory frameworks, and mitigation strategies that are operative in talking this urgent environmental concern and shielding the truthfulness of water in municipal regions. 2024, Scibulcom Ltd.. All rights reserved.
- Source
- Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology, Vol-25, No. 6, pp. 1833-1845.
- Date
- 2024-01-01
- Publisher
- Scibulcom Ltd.
- Subject
- environmental impact; groundwater pollution; hazardous waste; heavy metals and mitigation strategies; improper disposal; medical waste; public health
- Coverage
- Sharma B., Geeta University, Panipat, India; Sailaja M., Department of CSE, Ravindra College of Engineering for Women, Kurnool, India; Bansal R., Department of Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, Phagwara, India; Soujanya K., Department of BBA, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Andhra Pradesh, Guntur, India; Nerlekar T., Department of Civil Engineering, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Technology, Pimpri, Pune, India; Acharjee P.B., Department of Computer Science, CHRIST University, Bangalore, India; Rajagopal R., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Alliance School of Advanced Computing, Alliance University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 13115065
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Sharma B.; Sailaja M.; Bansal R.; Soujanya K.; Nerlekar T.; Acharjee P.B.; Rajagopal R., “EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF MEDICAL WASTE AND ITS INCREASE AFTER COVID-19 PANDEMIC,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/13490.