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Biomedical Waste Management in COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Issue in India

Abstract

Hariom Kumar Solanki, Pradip Kharya, Hari Shanker Joshi, Anand Mohan Dixit, Anil Ramesh Koparkar and Rama Shankar Rath

COVID-19 pandemic has allowed us to see the very new prospects of health issues. The biomedical waste management is such an important issue that has evolved rapidly in the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue ranges from identifying the biomedical waste to the management. The laws were formulated, policy has been changed but the ground-level changes are yet to be seen. The current manuscript focuses on the various important loopholes in the current policy in India and suggestions to improve the same.