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A Descriptive Study to Assess Knowledge Regarding Bio-Medical Waste Management Among Staff Nurses Working in Selected Hospital of Haldwani, Uttarakhand

Nisha Joshi

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Everywhere around the world health care personnel, including doctors, nurse and other paramedical staff are responsible for speedy recovery of their patients by maintaining clean and infection free surroundings. The use of science and technology has helped in fostering sustainable development, but at the same time, the by-products have proved highly destructive. And our medical field is no exception. Modern medical institutions have been successful in creating new technologies to save lives, but they have fallen short in constructing a procedure that deals with biomedical waste.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijmsn.v6i1.2348

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