European Academic Research ISSN 2286-4822
ISSN-L 2286-4822
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DRJI Value : 5.9 (B+)
Article Details :
Article Name :
Hospital Waste Management in Quetta City Mohterma Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Government Hospital
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 :
Bio-medical and non-biomedical waste are included in hospital waste and hospital waste needs proper management. This study were examine the management of hospital waste in government hospital (M.S.B.B) of Quetta city, Pakistan. Incinerator is the best technology for the final disposal of solid hospital waste. Incinerator condenses the volume of solid waste for final disposal. Only 25kg waste incinerated per day in Benazir hospital but all types of wastes were incinerate. Due to poor handling of hospital waste by the hospital staff and supervision correspondingly. This leads to environmental and health concerns within hospitals as well as to outside people. This study expected that to designate the qualitative results of observations of government hospitals in the city of Quetta Pakistan and 9 departments were selected from Benazir hospital. Due to covid-19 the amount of hospital waste increased almost 6 times to the peak 247 tons per day. This study highlights the lack of hospital waste management in government hospital. All hospital staff needs training programs about waste management in Pakistan.
Keywords :
Training programs, Hospital waste, Waste management, Waste incineration.

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