Analysis of the healthcare waste management status in Tehran hospitals

Journal of Environmental Health Science Engineering

Kazem nadafi¹  Kamyar yaghmaeian¹  Masud Yunesian¹  Fariba Malekahmadi² 

[1] Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health and Institute for Environmental Health Engineering Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Environmental and occupational Health centre, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, 11th floor, Simaye Iran St, Tehran 1467664961, Iran

关键词: Disposal;    Treatment;    Temporary storage;    Transportation;    Collection;    Segregation;    Healthcare waste management;    Healthcare waste;   

Others  :  1164581
DOI  :  10.1186/s40201-014-0116-4

 received in 2013-12-22, accepted in 2014-08-11,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Considering the importance of healthcare waste management, following the ratification of the Waste Management law in 2005 and the subsequent approval of its executive bylaw in 2006 and finally the healthcare waste management criteria passing by the parliament in 2008, a review on the status of healthcare waste management is needed to implement the mentioned law properly.

Findings

In this retrospective study during six months period all public hospitals in Iran’s capital city, Tehran, were selected to conduct the survey. Data collected through an expert-standardized questionnaire was analyzed by using SPSS software. The results of the current status of healthcare waste management in Tehran hospitals showed 5.6% of hospitals were ranked excellent, 50.7% good, 26.4% medium, and the 13.9% of hospitals were ranked weak and 3.5% ranked very poor.

Conclusions

The findings showed that appropriate technologies should be used to have better disposal stage. As the ratified criteria were not fully observed by all the selected hospitals, training courses and comprehensive program conducting by each hospital could be enjoyed as practical tools to implement the all stages of healthcare waste management properly.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Malekahmadi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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