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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
... for treatment technology options must be located far away from built environment and the disposal technology designed in such a way that it meets standard to safeguard the environment. Results of facilities for the treatment and disposal of medical waste as presented in Table 8 revealed landfill and incineration to have the highest values of WTI (waste treatment index) of 3.63 and 3.61 respectively with 1.18 and 1.16 deviations from the mean. Open pit dumping and composting also had positive WTI of 3.58 and 3.14. ...Context 3
... facilities according to the table hierarchy had values that were less than the mean. The fact as represented in Table 8 revealed that landfill and incineration are the most widely used means of disposing the generated waste from the healthcare institution studied. This however disagree with Madhukumar and Ramesh (2012), who reported burial pit and landfill as the most commonly used measures to dispose medical waste in medical college hospital, Bangalore. ...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...
