🌟CLASIFICACIÓN DE DESECHOS HOSPITALARIOS MSP (2020)🌟

MSP HOSPITAL WASTE CLASSIFICATION (ECUADOR 2020) #HospitalWasteClassification #MSP REGULATION FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF WASTE GENERATED IN HEALTH FACILITIES Ministerial Agreement 323 Official Register 450 of March 20, 2019 Status: In Force INTERMINISTERIAL AGREEMENT No. 0323-2019 THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT 1. Common waste. - Non-hazardous waste that does not pose a risk to human, animal, or environmental health. It cannot be recycled or recovered. These include: common-use diapers (for feces and urine), used toilet paper and sanitary napkins that do not come from isolation or emergency areas, and syringe barrels that have been separated from the needle and do not contain visible blood. 2. Recyclable waste. This is non-hazardous waste that can be recycled or recovered. 3. Medical waste. This is infectious waste that contains pathogens and poses a risk to human health and the environment; that is, it is waste that has biological-infectious hazard characteristics. Medical waste is classified as: 3.1. Biological-infectious waste. This includes material used in healthcare procedures or that is contaminated or saturated with blood or body fluids, cultures of infectious agents, and biological products that pose a risk to health and do not have sharp or cutting characteristics. This includes all material from isolation areas. 3.2.- Sharps waste.- Waste with sharp or cutting characteristics, including broken fragments of hard plastic, that have come into contact with blood, cultures of infectious agents, or body fluids that pose a health risk and can cause an infectious percutaneous accident. 3.3.- Pathological waste.- Discarded organs, tissues, and products of conception, such as chorioplacental membranes, tissues, and remains. This classification includes carcasses or parts of animals inoculated with infectious agents, as well as bulk body fluids generated during medical procedures or autopsies, with the exception of urine and excrement not originating from an isolation area. 4.- Pharmaceutical waste.- Expired medications or medications that do not meet quality standards or specifications. Pharmaceutical waste is classified as follows: 4.1. Non-hazardous pharmaceutical waste. These are expired medications with a low health risk. Due to their chemical nature, they decompose by reacting with inert agents in the environment, such as water, oxygen, or light. Therefore, their collection and transfer must be separated from other pharmaceutical waste. 4.2. Hazardous pharmaceutical waste. These are expired medications or medications that do not meet quality standards or specifications and, due to their nature, pose a high risk to health and the environment. Hazardous pharmaceutical waste includes waste from cytotoxic medications, such as genotoxic, cytostatic, and immunomodulatory chemicals, including the inputs used for their administration, because they pose a high risk to health due to their mutagenic, teratogenic, or carcinogenic properties. 5. Other hazardous waste.- Waste with corrosive, reactive, toxic, flammable, and/or radioactive characteristics that pose a risk to human health and the environment, according to applicable legal provisions. The following are considered other hazardous waste: 5.1. Radioactive waste.- Discarded substances or objects that contain radionuclides in concentrations with activity levels greater than the clearance levels established by the regulatory authority. 5.2. Hazardous chemical waste.- Expired chemical substances or products that do not meet quality standards or specifications. 5.3. Mercury-containing medical device waste.- Disused products with added mercury content. 5.4. Other hazardous waste established in the National Lists of Hazardous Waste and Residues issued by the National Environmental Authority or its representative.