[su_service title=”What is DRIVE” icon=”icon: comments-o” icon_color=”#453b32″]Project DRIVE is all about disposing residential injectable waste very effectively. DRIVE is an initiative by UDF to help patients dispose biomedical waste safely. [/su_service]
[su_service title=”How to Participate in DRIVE” icon=”icon: comments-o” icon_color=”#453b32″]Any practicing physician with a brick-n-mortar presence can participate in project DRIVE. Posters to be displayed in all Clinics / Hospitals that are a part of DRIVE[/su_service]
[su_service title=”How does Project DRIVE works” icon=”icon: comments-o” icon_color=”#453b32″]Patient are encouraged to collect biomedical waste at their residence and bring the same to the DRIVE affiliated clinic. The clinic is then expected to dispose the biomedical waste in a Red Bag.[/su_service]
Waste segregation
Hospital bio-medical waste can be classified into four categories:
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- Yellow: This includes post operative body parts, placenta, plaster of paris, pathological waste, cotton waste, dressing material, beddings, body fluid contaminated paper and cloth, face mask/cap and more.
- White/Translucent: This includes needles, syringes with fixed needles, blades, scalpels and more.
- Red: This includes syringes without needles, I.V. set, catheters, gloves, urine bag, dialysis kit, IV bottles and more..
- Blue: This includes all glass- and mettle-based waste.
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Need for Project DRIVE
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- We have to manage to safely dispose off the bio medical waste being generated at residences by patients.
- This is particularly true of patients who use insulins and are involved in frequent monitoring of their blood glucose.
- Unfortunately, no mechanism exists to take care of this waste.
- It is estimated that there are more than 70 million Indians with diabetes, and almost all of them at some or the other time have generated bio medical waste.
- The size of the problem is enormous
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The DRIVE Workflow
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- All participating doctors will stock red colored bags.
- These red bags are specially made for the disposal of bio-medical waste.
- The doctors will distribute these bags to their patients.
- Patients will be encouraged to collect their bio-medical waste in these bags.
- They are expected to give their filled bags to the Doctor.
- Doctor will then dispose off the bio-medical waste safely.
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