scholarly journals Healthcare Waste Management: The Current Issue in Menellik II Referral Hospital, Ethiopia

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desta Debalkie ◽  
Abera Kumie
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Healthcare Waste ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Healthcare Waste Management

Healthcare wastes generated in Hospitals from medical activities have not given sufficient attention. In developing countries, healthcare wastes are still handled and disposed indiscriminately creating an immense threat to the public health and the environment. This situation is much worse in Ethiopia where there is paucity of convincing evidence about healthcare waste generation rate and management system. A crossectional study was conducted in Menellik II hospital to evaluate the healthcare waste management system. Primary data on the healthcare waste management system was collected using observational checklist. Key informant interview guide was also employed on 11 selected informants to assess waste management practice and analyzed by thematic framework. The results revealed that there was no segregation of healthcare waste by type at the point of generation and disinfection of infectious waste before disposal. The main HCW treatment and disposal mechanism was incineration using low temperature, single chamber incinerator; open burning; burring in to amputation pit and open dumping on municipal dumping site as well as on the hospital back yard. Furthermore, there was negligence, attitudinal problem and low level of awareness about safe healthcare waste management. To diminish the risk of healthcare waste on public health and environment, a cost effective interventions include providing better medical waste management facilities, adherence to national regulatory and rising awareness of all concerned need to adopt in the hospital.

Effects of an incinerator project on a healthcare-waste management system

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (10_suppl) ◽  
pp. S91-S96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patthanasak Khammaneechan ◽  
Kamolnetr Okanurak ◽  
Pornchai Sithisarankul ◽  
Kraichat Tantrakarnapa ◽  
Poonsup Norramit
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Healthcare Waste ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Healthcare Waste Management

scholarly journals Application of healthcare waste indicators for assessing infectious waste management in Bolivia

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Navarro Ferronato ◽  
Marco Ragazzi ◽  
Marisol Secundina Torrez Elias ◽  
Marcelo Antonio Gorritty Portillo ◽  
Edith Gabriela Guisbert Lizarazu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Management System ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Healthcare Waste ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Healthcare Waste Management

In the developing world, healthcare waste management is a human health and environmental burden that should be solved for improving sustainability. Solutions should be introduced in the short term, concerning management, planning, financial assistance and expertise. The paper introduces an indicator set for assessing healthcare waste management in developing cities, implemented in La Paz (Bolivia) as a case study. The objective is to suggest an integrated management tool as a first assessment technique to identify the prevailing problems with a healthcare waste management system. Results suggest that, in La Paz, the application of such indicators is useful for evaluating which priorities should be addressed for improving the healthcare waste management system. The tool was applied for introducing a study necessary for the application of new management plans, especially concerning healthcare waste treatment. The method can be replicated in other contexts worldwide, with a focus on the developing world, for comparing cities, management solutions and improvements carried out along the years. The approach is of interest for boosting sustainability and human health, improving the awareness of the actors and policy-makers involved in waste management.

scholarly journals Research on Optimization of Healthcare Waste Management System Based on Green Governance Principle in the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 5316
Author(s):  
Ziyuan Liu ◽  
Tianle Liu ◽  
Xingdong Liu ◽  
Aijing Wei ◽  
Xiaoxue Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Management System ◽  
Digital Simulation ◽  
Healthcare Waste ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Temporary Storage ◽  
Healthcare Waste Management ◽  
Green Governance ◽  
Waste Transfer

At present, strategies for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic have made significant and strategic strides; however, and the large quantities of healthcare treatment waste have become another important “battlefield”. For example, in Wuhan, the production rate of healthcare waste in hospitals, communities, temporary storage, and other units was much faster than the disposal rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Improving the efficiency of healthcare waste transfer and treatment has become an important task for government health and environmental protection departments at all levels. Based on the situation of healthcare waste disposal in Wuhan during the critical period of the pandemic, this paper analyzes and studies green governance principles and summarizes the problems that exist in the current healthcare waste management system. Through the establishment of temporary storage facilities along transit routes, digital simulation and bionic experiments were carried out in the Hongshan District of Wuhan to improve the efficiency of healthcare waste transfer. Furthermore, this study discusses the coordination and cooperation of government, hospitals, communities, and other departments in the healthcare waste disposal process and provides guiding suggestions for healthcare waste disposal nationwide in order to deal with potential risks and provide effective references in all regions.

Healthcare waste management in a Brazilian university public hospital

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elci de Souza Santos ◽  
Karla Magna dos Santos Gonçalves ◽  
Marcos Paulo Gomes Mol
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Risk Identification ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Healthcare Waste ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Infectious Risk ◽  
Healthcare Waste Management ◽  
Waste Segregation

Some healthcare waste presents hazardousness characteristics and requires specific procedures to ensure the safety management. Waste segregation is an important action to control the risks of each type of waste. Healthcare waste indicators also may improve the waste management system. The aim of this article was to evaluate the healthcare waste management in a Brazilian university hospital, as well as the waste indicators, quantifying and qualifying the waste generation. Weighing of wastes occurred by sampling occurred sampling of seven consecutive days or daily, between 2011 and 2017. General wastes represent more than 55.6% of the total generated, followed by infectious, sharps and chemicals wastes, respectively, 39.1%, 2.9% and 2.4%. The generation rate in 2017 was 4.09 kg bed−1 day−1, including all types of wastes. Non-dangerous wastes represented around 93.3%, including infectious wastes with low potential risks, while dangerous was represented by high infectious risk (1.4%), chemicals (2.4%) and sharps (2.9%). Healthcare waste indicators may favour the risk identification and improve the waste management system, in particular when involving hazardous wastes. Failures in healthcare waste segregation could represent, in addition to the health risks, unnecessary expenses.

scholarly journals Smallholder Agroprocessors’ Willingness to Pay for Value-Added Solid-Waste Management Solutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1759
Author(s):  
Olaoluwa Omilani ◽  
Adebayo Abass ◽  
Victor Okoruwa
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Management System ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Factors Influencing

The paper examined the willingness of smallholder cassava processors to pay for value-added solid wastes management solutions in Nigeria. We employed a multistage sampling procedure to obtain primary data from 403 cassava processors from the forest and Guinea savannah zones of Nigeria. Contingent valuation and logistic regression were used to determine the willingness of the processors to pay for improved waste management options and the factors influencing their decision on the type of waste management system adopted and willingness to pay for a value-added solid-waste management system option. Women constituted the largest population of smallholder cassava processors, and the processors generated a lot of solid waste (605–878 kg/processor/season). Waste was usually dumped (59.6%), given to others (58.1%), or sold in wet (27.8%) or dry (35.5%) forms. The factors influencing the processors’ decision on the type of waste management system to adopt included sex of processors, membership of an association, quantity of cassava processed and ownership structure. Whereas the processors were willing to pay for new training on improved waste management technologies, they were not willing to pay more than US$3. However, US$3 may be paid for training in mushroom production. It is expected that public expenditure on training to empower processors to use solid-waste conversion technologies for generating value-added products will lead to such social benefits as lower exposure to environmental toxins from the air, rivers and underground water, among others, and additional income for the smallholder processors. The output of the study can serve as the basis for developing usable and affordable solid-waste management systems for community cassava processing units in African countries involved in cassava production.

scholarly journals Particulate matter characterization in an indoor workplace environment of a landfill

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-378
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
European Community ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Workplace Environment ◽  
Healthcare Waste ◽  
Legislative Procedures ◽  
Healthcare Waste Management

<div> <p>Proper Hospital healthcare Waste Management (HCWM) is imperative for ensuring public health and environmental protection. In this context, three Prefectural hospitals of Mytilene, Agrinio, and Messolonghi, were studied with respect to planning and management of infectious wastes, cost, training of the white Staff involved, security measures to be taken, and also knowledge related to the implementation of the existing National and European Community, legislation. It was found that the existing legislative procedures were broadly applied. However deviations were reported and it was recognized that serious difficulties in the implementation of the legislation throughout the process i.e. from the phase of separation throughout the processing phase did exist. These deviations frequently originated from conflicts in the directions given by the legislation Joint [Governmental Gazette B1537/8-5-2012]. In order to achieve better implementation of HCWM, recommendations are proposed here.</p> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p>

scholarly journals Healthcare Waste Management: A Case Study from Sudan

Environments ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Hassan ◽  
Terry Tudor ◽  
Mentore Vaccari
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Healthcare Waste ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Healthcare Waste Management ◽  
Treatment Technologies ◽  
Waste Segregation ◽  
Suitable Treatment

Healthcare waste (HCW) represents a major public health issue, especially in developing countries. Among HCW categories, sharps waste is one of the most hazardous. Exposure to needle-stick injuries can lead to blood-borne pathogens, therefore HCW should be managed in an effective manner. The main aims of this study were to assess the current management of used needles and to suggest suitable recommendations for an improved and safer system for needle management in Khartoum, Sudan. The study showed that the management of both healthcare and home-generated HCW in Sudan is inefficient, as all wastes are mixed together and disposed of improperly, especially used needles. The study attributes this to many reasons, including lack of waste segregation at the source, lack of policies, failure of planning, inadequate training, lack of awareness of the hazardous nature of such kinds of waste, weak infrastructure, and a lack of suitable treatment technologies. The estimated average generated rate of HCW ranged from 0.38 to 0.87 kg/bed/day in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Such ineffective healthcare waste management HCWM, especially used needles, can put public health as well as the environment at risk, particularly waste workers, thus urgent action needs to be taken by all involved parties and at all levels.

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