ArticleIndian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine2026
Healthcare Waste Management in Rural and Remote India: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions.
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Healthcare waste management in rural and remote India should not be treated as merely a technical disposal problem but as a governance, behavioral, and community health challenge. Although India has a regulatory framework for biomedical waste management, implementation remains uneven in rural primary healthcare settings because of weak segregation practices, limited access to common biomedical waste treatment facilities, inadequate staff training, poor monitoring, and low community awareness. This viewpoint argues that rural healthcare waste management requires a decentralized and community-engaged model that links regulatory compliance with local participation and resource-sensitive sustainability. The paper proposes an adapted "Four Joints of Power" framework involving government agencies, healthcare institutions, communities, and non-governmental or private-sector partners. However, its application to India must be context-specific, aligned with the Biomedical Waste Management Rules, 2016, State Pollution Control Boards, district health authorities, and primary healthcare institutions. The Circular Economy approach can strengthen this framework by promoting waste minimization, safe segregation, recycling of non-hazardous waste, and appropriate decentralized treatment technologies, while recognizing rural barriers such as limited skilled manpower, weak supply chains, inadequate infrastructure, and regulatory constraints. Social workers can play a strategic role as facilitators of community awareness, behavior change, stakeholder coordination, and monitoring. The paper recommends an integrated rural healthcare waste management approach that combines policy enforcement, capacity-building, community participation, gender-sensitive occupational safety, and locally feasible sustainable waste practices.
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