European Academic Research ISSN 2286-4822
ISSN-L 2286-4822
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Article Name :
Hospital Waste Management in Quetta City National Hospital (Private)
Author Name :
Nahida Tareen, Muhammad Anwar Panezai, Jahangir Khan Achakzai, Abdul Manan Kakar, Nazima Yousaf Khan, Ajab Khan Tareen, Inayt Ullah, Zahoor Agha
Publisher :
Bridge Center
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Abstract :
This research observed the hospital waste management practices in national hospital of Quetta city. Hospital waste is not segregation into infectious hospital and non-infectious hospital waste. This study observe that they mixed hospital waste with municipal waste. In this hospital simple wheeled trolleys are used for on-site transportation of hospital waste and this waste stored in temporary storage area. Incineration is not used for the final disposal of hospital waste. Government vehicles are used to take the hospital waste on daily basis from the hospital to the dumping site. The study indicated that the hospital does not have a procedure and good policy for the management of hospital waste. The owner of the hospital should facilitate the hospital with several funds to deal with hospital wastes and to maintain the clean environment of hospital. This data was collected through qualitative and quantitative methods and 7 departments were selected from national hospital. The total strength of respondent were 9 in which head of hospital, doctors, nurses and ward boys gives response from different departments. Common bins are used for the collection of waste and disposal of waste in hospital. According to research hospital waste needed proper hospital waste management and safe the health and environment.
Keywords :
waste management, hospital waste, infectious waste, non-infectious waste.

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