Assessment of quantity and management on medical wastes of South Khorasan province during 2014 -2015
Subject Areas : waste
Elham Yousefi
1
(Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environment, University of Birjand, Iran.)
Zeynab Karimzadeh Motlag
2
(PhD student in environmental evaluation, University of Esfehan.)
Fatemeh Doagoyan
3
(Deputy of human environment, General department of environmental protection of South Khorasan Province)
Morteza Nakhainejad
4
(Head of water, soil and waste office, General Department of Environmental Protection of
South Khorasan Province)
Keywords: South Khorasan province, Medical waste, Management, Quantity,
Abstract :
Background and Aims: This article is intended to update the statistics and medical information of South Khorasan province in the number of hospitals, health centers, clinics and physicians' offices, the amount and type of waste produced and way of collection and destruction of these centers the county of the province has been divided.Materials and Methodology: Collecting data and monitoring the province's medical wastes. Visitors and monitored for three weeks and review the management of medical waste and getting information from the authorities was performed.Results: The total quantity mean of waste generated in the Medical waste of Province are 228/1537 kg/day. This amount for infectious and sharp, pathological and chemical-pharmaceutical wastes are 1490.84, 13.39 and 33.998 kg/day respectively. The type of medical waste (infectious and sharp, pathological and chemical-pharmaceutical wastes) for hospitals by 1106, 12.33 and 28.695, medical centers 182.47, 0, 0.438, clinic 158.65, 0, 1.56, laboratories 21.73, 1.06, 1.08 and offices 21.99, 0 and 2.225 kg per day.Conclusion: According to the 1044 number of beds in these facilities, the per capita production of waste per bed per day, compared to the national average of 1.098 kg is estimated that the situation is better. According to a survey conducted, the least amount of problem is in government waste producing centers and in the field of infectious waste. Also in connection with the chemical and pharmaceutical wastes existence a program written in province in regarding the management and destruction of is much felt. Finally, it can be said that most of the problems is in the field of private sector producer of medical waste, the organization and its management is being implemented and it is hoped that this path be taken more quickly.
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