Quelle gestion pour une prise en charge efficiente des déchets d’activités de soins à risques infectieux en Algérie ? Cas d’Azzaba

Abstract

Algeria’s economic and social development has gene-rated a significant amount of special waste. Despite the efforts made and the legislative texts promulgated, their management and treatment are difficult. The production of these harmful materials has become a source of problems not only of insalubrity but also of public health. Indeed, the shortcomings in the management of these special residues produced contribute globally to a degradation of the environmental qua-lity and more precisely to a visual pollution, olfactory as well as to potential impacts on the human health. Faced with this situation and in order to minimize the environmental and health risks, a more rigorous and more rational treatment of Infectious Risk Care Activity Waste (IRCAW) is essential for all stakeholders. The purpose of this article is to try to identify the impact of this Special Waste on human health and the envi-ronment in Azzaba, a small town in eastern Algeria. This city has experienced and knows a strong demo-graphic and economic development accompanied by a greater sanitary coverage (implantation of hospital, centers of health and care ...). At the end of the stu-dy, courses of action for Sustainable Management of IRCAW are discussed.