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Disposable Hospital/Medical Supplies are
not a Threat to the Environment in Ontario
Canada, London City.
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Disposable Hospital/Medical Supplies are not a Threat to the
Environment in Ontario Canada, London City.
In Ontario (London), medical disposable items are
used in hospitals and can be disposed off after being
used (
Bambhaniya et al., 2023)
.
Contemporarily, they are used in many clinics and
hospitals to help in;
1.
Reducing infection rates
2.
Protecting the environment
3.
Alleviating other health-related problems
Disposable medical items are intended to be used on a patient during
a single procedure. Once they are used, they cannot be cleaned,
sterilized, and disinfected in order to be used on another patient.
The major concern of the items is to keep patients safe and the
medical device (
Rathinamoorthy & Raja Balasaraswathi, 2023)
.
They are designed to improve user-experience, prevent transmission
of an infection from an infected patient to another, and reduce the
risk of harming their user.
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Most healthcare facilities in Ontario Canada, and within London city use
disposable medical items primarily to enhance patient safety and reduce
risks (
Rathinamoorthy & Raja Balasaraswathi, 2023)
.
In addition, durability is an imperative benefit of disposable medical items.
In this context, most of them wear and tear after a specified duration.
Therefore, it is important to test and label the items properly.
Medical device companies within London city must as well test to identify
the average number of uses a device or component can withstand while
working effectively and label the device accordingly to indicate how many
times it can be used within the indicated safety margin.
Many people may be under the impression that one-time use products
have a greater number of negative effects on the environment, however
this is not the case.
Products designed for a single use in Ontario and specifically London
city are better for the environment if their disposal is handled correctly
(
Martínez-Barbosa & Moreno-Corral, 2022)
.
On the other hand, the waste that is produced during the manufacturing
of reusable medical devices in the form of chemicals and air pollutants is
far more detrimental to the Ontario environment.
When medical supplies are used in London and then thrown away, they can
contribute to the generation of a larger amount of waste than would
otherwise be the case. This is due to the fact that items designed to be
disposable typically come with their very own container for disposal.
Traditional medicinal supplies within Ontario may not be as harmful to the
environment as some disposable medical items. This is due to the fact that
their production does not demand a significant amount of resources, and
once they have served their purpose, they are typically recycled or
composted
(
Rathinamoorthy & Raja Balasaraswathi, 2023)
.
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References
1.
Bambhaniya, S. B., Mandot, A. A., Jaiswal, H. J., & Amin, H. H. (2023). Comparative Analysis of
Disposable and Reusable Textiles for Medical Applications.
Textile Recycling and Sustainable Apparel
Designs
, 115.
2.
Martínez-Barbosa, M. E., & Moreno-Corral, R. A. (2022). Washable, reusable and disposable medical
textiles. In
Medical Textiles from Natural Resources
(pp. 717-765). Woodhead Publishing.
3.
Rathinamoorthy, R., & Raja Balasaraswathi, S. (2023). Impact of coronavirus pandemic litters on
microfiber pollution—Effect of personal protective equipment and disposable face masks.
International
Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
,
20
(8), 9205-9224.
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