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ASPECTS ON PHARMACEUTICAL POLLUTANTS EXISTING IN USED WATER FROM HOSPITALS
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The wastewater sector of buildings in the residential or industrial sector throughout the world is of particular importance, in accordance with the strict, complex environmental legislation regarding waste water treatment. However, a major fundamental problem is wastewater from hospitals, due to dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which present a high risk of even previously treated water contamination, which prove to be useless or even inadequate, with the risk of spreading resistant bacteria much faster and on a large scale directly and irreversibly affects the environment and public health, with a negative impact that cannot be predicted in the long term and with unknown side effects. In hospital units there are several factors that influence and favor the development and spread of dangerous bacteria resistant to antibiotics, which is why this study focuses on stopping their spread, by identifying and stabilizing the main parameters, in predetermined norms of the effluents from the wastewater of the hospital units. These additional local pre-treatment methods are carried out under specific conditions, adapted to the chemical and biological decontamination of wastewater. In the case of hospital waste water, care must be taken to avoid the spread of bacteria (resistant or pathogenic), viruses, as well as to avoid contaminating the waters with pharmaceuticals, diagnostic agents and disinfectants. Through this type of approach an analysis of the waste water from the hospitals on the pharmaceutical pollutants existing in the hospitals effluents is necessary but also on the physical, chemical and microbial characteristics of the waste water from the hospitals. Hospitals effluents are generally considered to have the same pollutant effects as urban wastewater, and are therefore treated at the same wastewater treatment center, without paying particular attention to the harmful substances they contain.
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