A descriptive study on evaluation of bio-medical waste management in a tertiary care public hospital of North India

Journal of Environmental Health Science Engineering

Ashok Kumar²  Arun Kumar Aggarwal¹  Anil Kumar Gupta²  Rajiv Kumar² 

[1] School of Public Health, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India;Department of Hospital Administration, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

关键词: Disinfection of waste;    Mutilation of recyclable waste;    Segregation of waste;    Waste receptacles;    Environment;    Medical waste;    Biomedical waste;   

Others  :  805019
DOI  :  10.1186/2052-336X-12-69

 received in 2013-08-15, accepted in 2014-04-14,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Proper management of Biomedical waste (BMW) generated in a healthcare facility is one of the most important functions of a healthcare worker (HCW) as its improper management not only poses risk to human beings and environment, but may also invite legal action against HCW as well as hospital administration. This study was carried out to evaluate quality of BMW management in 1100-bedded hospital attached to a tertiary care public institute in North India.

Methods

A checklist, including 29 parameters related to various functions to be carried out at source of generation by a HCW for BMW management was prepared by researcher and used after validation to record observations in all the 70 areas of hospital. A total of 6 visits were made to each area and mean percentage score was calculated for each area and each category of waste management.

Results

It was found that summated mean percentage score of ‘Treatment Room of Wards’, which were used exclusively by resident doctors, was significantly lower than Operation Theatres (p value: 0.033) and ‘Central Waste Collection Points of Wards’ (p value: 0.018) for the function of ‘mutilation of recyclable waste’ and it was significantly lower than all other areas (p value: 0.006 to 0.017) for the function of ‘disinfection of waste’.

Conclusion

It is concluded that more emphasis needs to be laid on ‘mutilation of recyclable waste’ and disinfection of waste’ by HCWs especially resident doctors.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Kumar et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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