What do hospitals do with waste blood?

Question

Presume that swabs and suchlike are burned but where does blood and liquid go to surely not into the normal drains or sewers

Answer 1

It is disposed of as contaminated clinical waste and is indeed burnt in incinerators.

Answer 2

all body wastes and that includes waste blood is incinerated.

I am a paediatric nurse

Answer 3

They sell it to Vampires.

Answer 4

Units of blood that are not used and become outdated are packaged up in bio hazard boxes and sent off to be incinerated.

When a unit of blood is checked out by nursing and infused into a patient, depending on the hospital, either a segment or 2 are retained or the empty unit is brought back to the blood bank and are held for 7 days in case there is a delayed transfusion reaction so an investigation can be done.

After the 7 days, provided the patient has not had a delayed reaction, the expelled units are packed up into bio hazard boxes and sent off for incineration.

Answer 5

to vampires! (an incinoratior!)

Answer 6

they make black puddings with it