Assessment Method of Health Care Waste Generation in Latvia and Kazakhstan

Gusca, Julija; Kalnins, Silvija Nora; Blumberga, Dagnija; Bozhko, Larissa; Khabdullina, Zauresh; Khabdullin, Aset

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2015.06.025

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“…Because, unlike other types of wastes they have unique properties such as they are explosive, flammable, toxic, carcinogenic, corrosive, or infectious. The considerable fraction of those hazardous wastes is generated from different health care facilities mainly from hospitals [1].…”

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Assessment of Health Care Waste Generation Rate and Evaluation of its Management System in Mizan Tepi University Teaching Hospital (MTUTH), Bench Maji Zone, South West Ethiopia

Meleko¹

2018

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Assessment of Health Care Waste Generation Rate and Evaluation of its Management System in Mizan Tepi University Teaching Hospital (MTUTH), Bench Maji Zone, South West Ethiopia

Meleko¹

2018

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“…Another problem in Kwaingga Hospital waste management is lack of supporting facilities such as machine to destroy needless and final permanent landfilled; it only has temporary landfilled and throwing needless at temporary landfilled at hospital backyard. These problems can cause health problems to community and economic problem to hospital its self such as transmission diseases, environmental pollution, and will lead to economic loss for hospital due to injury or unhealthy environment at hospital [7]. There is report from developing countries that many needle stick injuries in the handling hospital waste remained unreported and unregistered [1] In Kwaingga Hospital also has poor segregation practice where staffs still mixing hazardous waste with general waste.…”

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“…World Health Organization states that treatment and management for hospital medical waste is up to 8 times more expensive that daily non-medical waste management in hospital. However, this still must be conducted; waste management planning and monitoring in hospitals are necessary in order to decreases risks from hospital waste [7].…”

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Study About the Management of Medical Waste and Non Medical Waste in Kwaingga Public Hospital, District Keerom, Jayapura

Tumangke¹

2019

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Kwaingga Public Hospital is categorized as type C hospital because there are several aspects need to be improved for management and quality in order to fill the standard from Ministry of Health. Especially for a medical waste management, hospital staffs said that an incinerator has potential to explode due to bad structure because its pillar consists wood. This study aimed to observe the management of medical waste and general waste in Kwaingga Public Hospital. This study is qualitative study where the population is all staffs that work in Kwaingga Public Hospital, and the study sample is six Hospital staffs including hospital director, planning division, treasurer, and sanitarians. They have been deep interviewed and recorded. Study took visual documentations. There are 20 trashes distributed in hospital for daily waste and it is end in a small landfill in hospital backyard. This managed by 10 cleaning services and the staffs said that that number is still inadequate. Sanitarian staffs are six and they all have background sanitation diploma, but they still have overload tasks and they don't get any training for development yet, the last training was in 2012. There are incinerator, wastewater treatment plant, septic tank, filtration for wastewater, and an old incinerator; there is no machine for destroyed needles. Unfortunately, the incinerator was rarely to use since its structure is bad and has potential to explode; also diesel fuel cost is expensive, so the medical waste burned manually including needles. Similarly, wastewater treatment plant is rarely used due to electricity cost, so it only runs if the wastewater is full. Wastewater treatment plant had bought from Local government Revenue costing 4.5 billion rupiah. Salary for contact staffs and cleaning services are also from local government revenue. Therefore, local government revenue must be increased its allocation for hospital waste management.

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“…As is the case in all other sectors, the amount and variety of wastes generated by the healthcare sector has increased in parallel with technological developments and population growth (Gusca et al, 2015; Qi et al, 2018; Windfeld and Brooks, 2015). The wastes generated by the healthcare sector leave permanent effects in the air, water and earth thus posing serious environmental risks with the additional hazards of injection agents and viruses (Birpınar et al, 2009; Patwary et al, 2011; Qi et al, 2018).…”

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Occupational health and safety-oriented medical waste management: A case study of Istanbul

Eren

Tuzkaya

2019

Waste Manag Res

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The outstanding pace of technological development around the world coupled with increasing population and rapid urbanization have brought along an ever-increasing demand for healthcare services. This trend results in an increasing amount and variety of medical wastes. Accordingly, the issue of effective collection, transportation and disposal of medical wastes, specifically in large cities, has become a critical concern from the viewpoint of urban logistics and holds great importance in terms of safety. This study aims to determine the safety of hospitals in their medical waste management function. The study involves the determination of medical waste management steps, establishment of a hierarchical structure, and weighting of the criteria within the established hierarchical structure by means of the analytic hierarchy process method. Afterwards, the extent to which these criteria are adopted in hospitals was evaluated by the medical waste management officers of those hospitals, and safety scores were obtained for each hospital by associating the results with the weighted values obtained by the analytic hierarchy process method. The model proposed for medical waste management problems encountered by healthcare institutions in Istanbul was implemented for a specific region of Istanbul province, and the obtained results were analyzed. Evaluation of the opinions of the healthcare officials for determination of the medical waste management safety scores showed that the “collection” criterion has significantly higher importance than the “temporary storage” and “transportation” criteria. “The effect on hospital personnel” sub-criterion of the “collection” criterion had the highest score. This revealed the importance of the collection process that takes place between storage and transportation, for evaluating the human waste-based risks.

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Assessment Method of Health Care Waste Generation in Latvia and Kazakhstan

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Assessment of Health Care Waste Generation Rate and Evaluation of its Management System in Mizan Tepi University Teaching Hospital (MTUTH), Bench Maji Zone, South West Ethiopia

Assessment of Health Care Waste Generation Rate and Evaluation of its Management System in Mizan Tepi University Teaching Hospital (MTUTH), Bench Maji Zone, South West Ethiopia

Study About the Management of Medical Waste and Non Medical Waste in Kwaingga Public Hospital, District Keerom, Jayapura

Occupational health and safety-oriented medical waste management: A case study of Istanbul

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