Since the covid-19 pandemic happen, the amount of medical waste has increased
and more varied especially in health care facilities. The purpose of this research is
to find out the proper and appropriate implementation of management covid-19
medical waste so that environmental pollution does not occur and the virus does
not spread through the covid-19 medical waste. The research method used is an
empirical research method that focuses on social facts. Empirical research method
where the type of data used is primary data with interviews and secondary data
from literature studies. The implementation of management covid-19 medical waste
in the context of preventing environmental pollution, especially at the Jetis Health
Center as one of the health service facilities in the City of Yogyakarta has been
going well, but in general the management of covid-19 medical waste in the City of
Yogyakarta is not yet optimal because there are still several obstacles experienced
by the government such as lack of the amount of covid-19 medical waste report by
the other health care facilites.