| Autor: |
Ranjan, Rijul, Parashar, Pawan, Chaudhary, Varsha, Shukla, Arvind |
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Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development; Dec2018, Vol. 9 Issue 12, p120-123, 4p |
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Background: The term "biomedical waste" has been defined as "any waste which is generated during diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals, or in the research activities pertaining to or in the production or testing of biologicals and includes categories as mentioned in schedule I of the Government of India's Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 1998". Objectives: To assess the practices related to Bio-Medical Waste Management. Material & Method: The present cross sectional study was conducted from march 2016 to February 2017among healthcare workers of tertiary care hospitals of Meerut city. Simple random sampling was used. The written consent was taken. Data was analysed using SPSS version 19 and Pearson's Chi square test was applied. Results: The healthcare workers segregate BMW according to different categories and they were doing this at the point of generation (87.6% and 88.5% respectively). 88.5% HCWs did not dispose all kind of waste into garbage waste. Majority (89.2%) were following color coding for disposal of BMW. Correct practice related to disposal of Normal Waste was observed in 89.2% of HCWs. Most of the HCWs were correctly disposing category 1,6,7 and 8 of BMW (97.1%, 89.2%, 88.5% and 97.1% respectively) whereas Category 2,3,4,9 and 10 were disposed correctly by nearly three-forth of the HCWs (72.3%, 73.9%, 72.3%, 78.0% and 78.0% respectively). Conclusion: Practices regarding Bio-Medical Waste was also found to be satisfactory in all the Health Care Workers but lower for IV class workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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