A Study on Hospital Waste Management of Sylhet City in Bangladesh

Basak, Shilpy Rani; Mita, Ayesha Ferdous; Ekra, Nusrat Jahan; Alam, Md. Jahir Bin

doi:10.33564/ijeast.2019.v04i05.006

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“…Although the OPD generates the biggest amount of CSW, most of the wastes in this department are non-hazardous. This result is similar with some studies who found out that 64% of CSW in hospitals are generated in the OPD and are non-hazardous [19,20].…”

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Current Methods and Challenges of Managing Clinical Solid Waste at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan

Woni,

Giet,

Morris

et al. 2024

AJEP

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The amount of clinical solid waste generated at Juba Teaching Hospital has been increasing as a result of the increasing population of Juba city. Despite the increase in the amounts of clinical solid waste, few scientific studies were conducted and the studies focused only on municipal solid waste management and have not explored clinical solid waste management in Juba City. A survey study aimed to explore the current methods and challenges of clinical solid waste management (CSWM) at Juba Teaching Hospital was conducted. The data was obtained through questionnaires, observation and oral interview. Word-excel-2013 and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) IBM – 2021 version were used to process the data. The results revealed inappropriate methods of clinical solid waste management practices such as irregular collection, mixing different types of solid wastes together, use of water bottles instead of safety boxes for segregation of sharps, manual transportation of solid wastes, unprotected storage site, irregular incineration, open burning and random dumping. Reasons such as insufficient equipment, negligence of hospital administrators and few numbers of waste collectors was attributed to the inappropriate management of clinical solid waste in the hospital. The study recommended adoption of recycling strategies, employment of more waste handlers, commensurate remuneration and motivation, provision of enough equipment, creation of staff awareness and capacity development on health implications of poor clinical solid waste management.

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Current Methods and Challenges of Managing Clinical Solid Waste at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan

Woni,

Giet,

Morris

et al. 2024

AJEP

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“…This waste is basically composed of hazardous and nonhazardous items. On the basis of the risk associated with these waste products during their handling and processing they are further categorized into (a) sharps including contaminated needles and scalpels, (b) pathological waste items including microbiological cultures, blood samples, and body parts, (c) infectious waste materials including blood and body fluids specimens, intravenous lines and catheters and dressings [21][22][23] . Aside from these materials other waste items include instruments containing radioactive agents and mercury, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics 24,25 .…”

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Biosafety and Biomedical Waste Management In Pakistan: A Case Study of Major Cities Near Pak-Afghan Border

Khalid,

Shumail,

Hani

2024

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Our community is unaware of the basic concepts of biosafety and biomedical waste management. Biosafety is the containment and safe handling of hazardous materials and infectious agents while biomedical waste management includes the proper segregation and disposal of waste materials generated in health care facilities. Laboratories and hospital administrations should ensure biosafety and proper biomedical waste disposal to protect the humans, animals and the environment from the harmful effects infectious agents. Need for such management practices has been significantly increased in the face of new drug resistant bacteria and new strains of viruses. This survey was carried out from July-December 2020 in order to look into the biosafety and biomedical waste management practices followed in major and most populous cities of Pakistan in area bordering Afghanistan i.e. Peshawar, Mardan, Charsaddah and Nowshehra. During the survey laboratories and hospitals (including veterinary hospitals) of both public and private sector were selected and assessed through pre-scheduled and random visits to clearly observe the situation. It was observed during the surveys that majority of the laboratories and hospitals were not following the standard Biosafety and Biomedical Waste Management guidelines, lacking the proper use of personal protection equipment’s (PPE), spill management, disinfection, decontamination, waste segregation and disposal. Inadequate biosafety measure and waste management give rise to a great number health and environmental problems. Therefore, it is recommended that biosafety and biomedical waste management concerns should be communicated with all stakeholders for designing strategies and action plans to cope with this alarming situation.

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“…However, design of incinerator and its flue gas monitoring is very important for successful adoption of this technique. Basak et al (2019) and Vavva et al (2020) stated that incineration of hospital waste can be a best practice to manage and properly dispose toxic and hazardous hospital wastes. The knowledge of waste generated at the medical and hospital waste facilities is very important for proper handling and safe disposal of hazardous wastes, reported by Ali et al (2020).…”

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Effective Management of Hospital and Medical Waste in Rural Areas of Pakistan: A Case Study

Sadia¹,

Farid²,

Ghafoor³

et al. 2020

Agrobiol. Records

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The proper management and safe disposal of increasing amount of solid wastes has been recognized as a global problem of the recent age. Toxic and hazardous constituents present in the solid wastes, make this problem even more critical and challenging. Exposure of such solid waste, when not managed properly significantly effects the local environment and public health. For example, bio-hazardous wastes generated from hospital and other clinical settings possess heterogeneous constituents with potentially infectious properties imposing a significant threat to the public health as well as the natural environment. This becomes more curious in case of epidemic diseases treatment and cure procedures. There are several techniques used to treat the infectious wastes, however, adoption of either technique depends upon the type of material and available resources. Thermal treatment or incineration has been found as one of the common and efficient methods for toxic waste management in which waste materials are ignited and burnt under controlled conditions destroying the toxic constitutes of the hazardous materials. The present study has been taken up in order to study the toxic waste management with emphasis on hospital waste. The case of basic health unit has been taken in order to assess and quantify toxic waste potential and its management. The study has also come up with a proposed design of small-scale fixed bed incinerator for hospital waste.

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A Study on Hospital Waste Management of Sylhet City in Bangladesh

Cited by 4 publications

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Current Methods and Challenges of Managing Clinical Solid Waste at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan

Current Methods and Challenges of Managing Clinical Solid Waste at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan

Biosafety and Biomedical Waste Management In Pakistan: A Case Study of Major Cities Near Pak-Afghan Border

Effective Management of Hospital and Medical Waste in Rural Areas of Pakistan: A Case Study

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