Many of the waste chemicals and pharmaceuticals used in hospitals and health facilities of different sources to harm workers and female workers and the environment as some of the chemicals are poisonous and dangerous and cause cancer diseases in addition to the presence of other chemicals incendiary and highly flammable and explosive, may be quantities of chemicals and pharmaceuticals few when use but large quantities arise from the presence of materials has expired or has not been used for not wanting to use it as the remnants of some chemicals cause poisoning when exposure to them in large quantities in a short period of time, such as disinfection and sterilization, or when exposure to them in small quantities for long periods of time such as mercury exposure may be because of Absorption of skin or mucous membranes or by inhalation or swallowing either skin wounds or eyes or mucous membranes of the respiratory system may be caused scattering with chemicals incendiary and flammable and highly explosive compounds such as formaldehyde used in sterilization and keeping tissue samples and more injuries that occur to the skin due to the waste is fire also exchange residues of chemicals into the sewer system of public sanitation could lead to damage to the environment of vitality because of the inability of sewage treatment plants eliminate and get rid of those materials compared with the ease of getting rid of microbes as that of some of the waste pharmaceutical devastating effects of natural ecosystems. Such as the remnants of waste medicines from antibiotics and drugs used for the treatment of cancer diseases, which have the ability to kill microorganisms that are necessary for these systems, and also the possibility of mutations and deformities of organisms surrounding and the presence of large quantities of medical waste, hazardous liquid resulting from hospitals mixed with the remnants of heavy metals such as mercury and phenolic compounds and its derivatives and toxic products of some disinfectants and cleansing, which also contribute to the destabilization of those ecosystems.
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Serious medical waste