Sources producing medical wastes are divided into primary sources and secondary sources.
The main sources
** Hospitals of all kinds.
** Services and blood banks.
** Medical laboratory.
** Institutions and research center for Biotechnology.
** Centers and forensic pathological.
* Animal research centers, colleges and veterinary laboratories.
** Elderly care centers.
Secondary sources
** Clinics and doctors' offices to detect routine patients.
Clinics ** small teeth.
Centers ** re and rehabilitation of the disabled.
** Home treatment.
** Beauty centers.
Secondary sources produce residues may be similar with some of the waste in hospitals, as waste and residues of biological medicines and needles, but the quantities are small. As the medical waste vary according to different departments within the same hospital. And examples of the piece as follows:
** Wings and sections of refuge, containing infectious medical waste such as cotton, ligaments and acute medical waste Kbr.
** Chamber operations and contains the remnants of medical and pathological tissues of embryos and human organs and the remnants of a sharp capper sewing and scalpels.
** Chambers surgical treatment, medical waste containing semi-solid infectious such as cotton and gauze and ligaments contaminated needles and sutures and some chemical residues Kalmhaleil used in the cleaning and disinfection of wounds.
** Room sampling, and contains remnants of an acute medical and some pieces of cotton contaminated.
* Eat birth. Containing a biological medical waste and infectious diseases, such as embryo and the placenta and refills contaminated with the blood of the inmates.
** Coefficient analysis. Most infectious waste, such as patient samples and dishes implant bacterial and chemical residues Kalmhaleil used to run appliances.
** Pharmacy and medicine at the hospital store. Mostly remnants of drugs and the remnants of fluids sterilization and disinfection and cleaning.
التسميات
Serious medical waste