Going toward Green Hospital by Sustainable Healthcare Waste Management: Segregation, Treatment and Safe Disposal

Azmal, Mohammad; Kalhor, Rohollah; Dehcheshmeh, Nayeb Fadaei; Goharinezhad, Salimeh; Heidari, Zohreh Asadollahi; Farzianpour, Fereshteh

doi:10.4236/health.2014.619302

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“…Hospital administrators can manage waste through compost, recycle, better purchasing (downsizing package, use reusable products instead of disposables and buy recycled products) and minimize waste transport. By these actions, it will be possible to fulfill the hospital mission "no harm to patients, itself, society and environment" in addition to cost-saving [22]. It seems necessary to develop a comprehensive action plan in order to fulfill the fundamental standards and promote the weakness of Green hospital standards.…”

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“…Despite the establishment of Green Hospital in some countries of world, global efforts just address the climate change and protect the environment and the literature has been less paid to the green hospital. Although a lot of researchers have been separately worked on each of the green hospital dimensions including green building; unfortunately, the little research has been conducted about green hospital dimensions comprehensively [22]. In Iran also, some researchers have performed projects on this subjects such as hospital waste management, energy management in hospitals and assess accreditation standards of green hospital model have been done [23]- [28].…”

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Evaluation of Green Hospital Dimensions in Teaching and Private Hospitals Covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences

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Farzianpour²,

Foroushani³

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Green Hospital" has been emerged as an approach to address environmental challenges and meet the needs of society. The aim of this study was to evaluate the components of the Green Hospital in Teaching and Private Hospitals covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The present study is a descriptive-analytical which examines the elements of the green hospital at 19 teaching and private hospitals covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2013. The checklist was developed by the Centre for Environmental Sciences Augsburg Germany which translated by Iranian Green's Management Association. The checklist consisted of eight Green Hospital dimensions which were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics measures including frequency tables mean and range and analytical statistics such as independent t-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used for data analysis. The studied hospitals have earned 59.5 percent of total points. In this regard, the dimensions of "environmental leadership and management" have rated the highest and water management is in the lowest rating. Although private hospitals had earned higher scores in all aspects of green hospitals apart from management and leadership and chemicals compared with teaching hospitals, but there wasn't any significant difference between these dimensions and types of hospitals statistically. Given that the hospitals studied do not meet green * Corresponding author.F. E. Azar et al. 260hospital standards properly, it seems necessary to prepare a comprehensive action plan to improve their weaknesses and meet these standards. Trying to perform a green hospital accreditation and receive certification of international authoritative institutions or developing a national standards is also recommended.

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Evaluation of Green Hospital Dimensions in Teaching and Private Hospitals Covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences

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Foroushani³

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“…There are various kinds of waste present in health care centers, which need to be segregated as per their hazardous nature and treatment processes (Azmal et al 2014 ). According to the World Health Organization (WHO 2018 ), only 10–15 % of medical waste is hazardous.…”

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Third-party Logistics in Bio-medical Waste System: a Path Towards a Risk-free Sector

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Sharma

Shanker

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After the sudden advent of COVID-19, the amount of medical waste has escalated to a great extent. The incremented medical waste amidst the pandemic exposes the improper waste management system of various developing countries. India, being one of the prominent developing countries, produces the largest waste in the world. Nonetheless, the Indian waste management system is not able to manage the massive amount of waste generated. Henceforth, this research study approaches to reveal the prominent factors which are causing failure in the system of medical waste management in India. This manuscript mainly focuses on two aspects. Firstly, this paper illuminates the factors which are hindering medical waste management by third-party logistics (3PL). Secondly, this study discusses a unique interval-value intuitionistic fuzzy set (IVIFS) based on Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) to depict graphical causal interrelationships among the factors. In addition, the analytic network process (ANP) is utilized to estimate the influence ranking of each factor. The results of this research anticipate that the transportation and disposal-related constraining factors require more attention from 3PL managers. The current study is unique as it enriches the various hindering factors on 3PL BMW management by discussing the ranking and relationship among factors.

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“…Efforts have been made in recent years to improve this counterproductivity in which HCW could be potentially harmful to human life. These efforts have led to a push for “greener” and “safer” means of HCW disposal such as autoclaving, microwaving and steam augor but even green methods come with a range of potential challenges as many are not suitable for large volumes of waste or are not widely available [ 50 ], moreover these methods tend to be supportive to conventional techniques than being their replacement. Such as a steam autoclave can sterilize bacteria in clinical solid waste but cannot be considered as an alternative technology to incineration due to the re-growth risk of the bacteria [ 51 ].…”

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Review of Current Healthcare Waste Management Methods and Their Effect on Global Health

Kenny

Priyadarshini

2021

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Healthcare is a rapidly growing industry as medical treatments become more sophisticated, more in demand due to increasing incidence of chronic disease and more widely available worldwide. This booming industry is also creating more waste than ever before and, as such, there is a growing need to treat and dispose of this waste. Healthcare waste (HCW) disposal includes a multitude of disposal methods, including incineration, landfilling and chemical treatments. These rudimentary methods and their growing use present their own problems that negatively impact both the environment and, in turn, damage public health, thus contributing to a global healthcare crisis. The aim of this review was to examine the current HCW disposal methods in place and the harmful effects they have on the environment and on public health. The findings accumulated in this review demonstrate a heavy reliance on basic, low tech HCW disposal techniques and uncovered the negative impacts of these methods. There is a notable lack of employment of “greener” HCW disposal methods on a largescale due to cost, access and feasibility. Despite innovations in HCW disposal, there is no scalable, global green solution at present. Further, the review highlights that global health consequences of HCW disposal methods often differ depending on how developed the country is.

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Going toward Green Hospital by Sustainable Healthcare Waste Management: Segregation, Treatment and Safe Disposal

Cited by 32 publications

References 10 publications

Evaluation of Green Hospital Dimensions in Teaching and Private Hospitals Covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Evaluation of Green Hospital Dimensions in Teaching and Private Hospitals Covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Third-party Logistics in Bio-medical Waste System: a Path Towards a Risk-free Sector

Review of Current Healthcare Waste Management Methods and Their Effect on Global Health

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