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Introduction: Medical waste includes all types of waste with potential characteristics to spread diseases, generated from healthcare institutions. Objective: The study was carried out to assess the status and challenges of medical waste management practices in Delta State University Teaching Health Institution. Methodology: A cross-sectional survey...
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... facilities for the collection and segregation of medical waste are shown in Table 6. Table 7 displays facilities for storage and transportation of medical waste; so also is Table 8 which revealed with details on the perceived facilities for the treatment and disposal of waste. Table 9 revealed the conditions of facilities for waste handler and Table 10 deals with details on the condition of waste storage facilities. ...Context 2
... et al. (2010) reported that transportation of medical waste has not been given the attention needed. Results in Table 7 shows the analysed rating difference on waste storage and transportation facilities; which are mandatory for the smooth movement of medical waste from on-site to off-site. The result revealed that lidded container has the highest Waste Storing Index of 3.61 with deviation of 1.18 from the mean; followed by storage house (WSI 3.41, deviation 0.98); hand cart (SWI 3.14, deviation 0.71) and waste skip (SWI 2.99, deviation 0.56). ...Similar publications
Background/Aim. Among the other challenges of the 21st century, medical waste (MW) has become an arising problem for both the environment and people because of its increasing amount, variety, and complexity. That is way MW management has become one of the very important ecological imperatives. Serbia with no potential for appropriate disposal of al...
