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Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
Year : 2018, Volume : 9, Issue : 12
First page : ( 120) Last page : ( 123)
Print ISSN : 0976-0245. Online ISSN : 0976-5506.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-5506.2018.01818.1

Practices regarding biomedical waste management among health care workers of Tertiary Care Hospitals of Meerut, U.P.

Ranjan Rijul1, Parashar Pawan2, Chaudhary Varsha3, Shukla Arvind4

1Junior Resident III, (Biostatistics), Subharti Medical College, Meerut, U.P.

2Professor, (Biostatistics), Subharti Medical College, Meerut, U.P.

3Associate Professor, (Biostatistics), Subharti Medical College, Meerut, U.P.

4Assistant Professor (Biostatistics), Subharti Medical College, Meerut, U.P.

Online published on 9 January, 2019.

Abstract

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.

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Keywords

Biomedical waste management, hospital, healthcare workers.

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