According to the latest reports, medical waste contains potential pathogens, can pass through the human respiratory tract, digestive tract, damaged skin to enter the body, causing disease spread and health hazards. Shanghai health supervision department in November 30th revealed that the current Shanghai has 40 public medical institutions in the beginning of a comprehensive pilot medical waste traceability mechanism, which has achieved full coverage of Minhang District.

The introduction of RFID technology, RFID, specific goals through radio recognition to read and write the relevant data about medical waste disposal time and other information sources through the scanner sweep instant access. Health Authority official said, Minhang District has become the first in Shanghai formed the scale of medical waste collection informatization pilot counties, and achieve full coverage area, hospital to hospital in the medical waste collection and transportation process management, supervision departments to conduct real-time monitoring of the medical structure of public medical waste collection and transportation machine, and this information at the same time, the establishment of early warning system, once the amount of medical waste fluctuates significantly, can timely check whether a medical waste is missing.

Shanghai City Health Authority said that Shanghai has "to explore the medical waste management" into a new round of "strengthening the action plan for the construction of public health system in three years, in addition to Minhang District, Jiading District, Xuhui District and some other medical institutions are also medical waste management pilot, the city has more than 40 medical institutions using the Internet to manage medical waste, next year it is expected to gradually promote the city.