Not handled with care: A survey of biomedical waste practices in Jharkhand

The healthcare sector is known to be a wellness centre and must unwittingly act as a source of further risk exposure to the healthcare staffs, patients and their families as well as the neighbourhood. Biomedical waste, the waste generated from the healthcare sector, is the biggest concern for all healthcare facilities, owing to the increasing incidents of a large number of hospital acquired infection (HAI) taking place across India.