Legal regulations of medical waste management / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Medical wastes are highly risky as infectious substances or hazardous chemical substances, if out of control, will cause serious environmental pollution and spread of diseases, directly jeopardizing human health. In consideration of such hazards of medical wastes, Chinese laws have made strict regulations on their management, which however fall short in terms of their rigorousness. In the era to build a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, it is imperative to establish and improve an effective mechanism for the regulation of medical wastes, to further improve China's legal system of medical waste management and to upgrade the law enforcement on it.