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During the COVID 19 pandemic, it is essential to determine the appropriate channel for the disposal of healthcare waste generated in the COVID 19 and non-COVID 19 sectors. Whether in healthcare facilities, in medical and social institutions, in doctors’ offices, or with patients at home, many questions arise: such as how to dispose of DASRI, PPE, surgical masks, clothing, incontinence products, single-use bedding in contact with COVID 19 patients or in the non COVID 19 sector?
All these questions can find a clear answer in the notice published last November by the High Council of Public Health.
| production place | Methods of waste disposal | Source for recommendations | |||
| Sharp Perforations | PPE caregivers and patients | protection for incontinent adults | cleaning single-use linen and PPE of cleaning personnel | ||
| health establishment | PPE | PPE worn in contact with Codiv-19 cases: hazardous waste. PPE worn in contact with non Covid-19 patients: household waste | Covid-19 : hazardous waste. Residents without symptom Covid-19 : household waste in double bag after 24H storage | confirmed COVID 19 room : hazardous waste sector. In other cases : household waste in double bag after 24H storage | SF2H Notice january 28 2020 SF2H Notice february 7 2020 HCSP Notice february 18 2020 HCSP Notice March 19 2020 HCSP Notice April 8 2020 SF2H Notice April 5 2020 (wipes) |
| Medico-social facilities with a hazardous waste program and more particularly the nursing homes | hazardous waste | PPE* worn in COVID 19 contact : hazardous waste PPE* worn in contact with non Covid-19 patients: household waste (HW) in double bag after 24H storage *applies to PPE worn by caregivers but also those worn by people visiting residents in nursing homes and cleaning equipment | Covid-19 : hazardous waste. Residents without symptoms Covid-19: household waste in double bag after 24H storage | confirmed Covid-19 room confirmed: hazardous waste sector. In the other cases : household waste in double bag after 24H storage | Provision of the doctrine established for ES HCSP Notices April 8, 2020MININING 2020-85 |
| EMS does not previously have a hazardous waste program (specialized reception center: MAS, etc.). | hazardous waste | household waste in double bag after 24H storage | household waste in double bag after 24H storage | household waste in double bag after 24H storage | Transposition of the doctrine for patients at home |
| LHP (liberal health professional) | hazardous waste | household waste in double bag after 24H storage | Not applicable | Not applicable | HCSP Notice March 19 2020 |
| Centre de consultation dédiés Covid-19 | hazardous waste | household waste in double bag after 24H storage | Not applicable | Not applicable | Transposition of the LHP doctrine |
| At home | hazardous waste (LHP branch which intervenes at home) | household waste in double bag after 24H storage | household waste in double bag after 24H storage | household waste in double bag after 24H storage (except HAD : ES protocols) | HCSP Notice March 19 2020, HCSP Notice April 8 2020 |
| Place of isolation dedicated to the isolation of patients (hotels, …) | hazardous waste (LHP branch which intervenes) | household waste in double bag after 24H storage | HCSP Notice of March 19 HCSP Notice of April 8, 2020 HCSP Notice of April 24, 2020HCSP Letter of May 4, 2020 | ||