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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
卷 195, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-023-11002-5
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Hospital wastewater; Characterization; Pollutants; Impacts; Antibiotic resistance; Treatment
Health care institutions generate liquid effluents containing high levels of organic matter and emerging contaminants, such as disinfectants, drugs, bacteria, viruses, and parasites. These effluents have detrimental effects on aquatic environments and human health, and contribute to the global issue of antibiotic resistance. Various treatment techniques, including physical-chemical processes, biological processes, and hybrid techniques, are used to protect water resources and mitigate the impacts of hospital wastewater.
Health care institutions generate large volumes of liquid effluents from specific activities related to healthcare, analysis, and research. Their direct discharge into the environment has various negative effects on aquatic environments and human health, due to their high organic matter charges and the presence of various emerging contaminants such as disinfectants, drugs, bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Moreover, hospital effluents, by carrying antibiotics, contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in the environment. This resistance has become a global issue that manifests itself variously in different countries, causing the transmission of different infections. In this respect, an effort is provided to protect water resources by current treatment methods that imply physical-chemical processes such as adsorption and advanced oxidation processes, biological processes such as activated sludge and membrane bioreactors and other hybrid techniques. The purpose of this review is to improve the knowledge on the composition and impact of hospital wastewater on man and the environment, highlighting the different treatment techniques appropriate to this type of disposal before discharge into the environment.
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