Risques lies a la gestion inappropriee des dechets d’activite sanitaire dangereux de nature anatomique

الملخص EN

Healthcare activities related to medical procedures generate a huge quantity of hazardous healthcare waste, especially anatomical waste.

Thus, we raise the issue of environmental and health risks and impacts caused by the indiscriminate and erratic handling and disposal of waste done within health-care facilities.

Safe management of hazardous health-care waste is essential and still based on respect of rules.

Since 1990, Tunisian government has established many legal texts related to heath-waste generally and hazardous ones specially.

Nevertheless, these rules are still not enough respected.

A better awareness by the medical and auxiliary staff, rewarding those who respect the rules and disciplinary measures and strict application of sanctions in case of infraction are essential.

In this paper, our aims are to emphasize current regulations related to safe management of wastes from health-care activities, to underline sanctions in case of di srespecting them and to set risks due to the unsafe management out.