Medical Waste Management in Private Hospitals in Tehran

Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI:10.34172/jaehr.1274

Ali Hosseinzadeh, Mir Amir Mohammad Reshadi, Morteza Nazaripour, Masomeh Rezaei

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Background: Solid waste management is one of the important aspects of the hospital management. Methods: In this study, we examined the quantity and composition of medical solid waste in eight private hospitals in Tehran. For this purpose, a checklist was used through interviews with hospital waste management staff as well as collecting information on hospital waste generation. The annual average of obtained data was analyzed in this study. Results: The results indicated that the private hospitals under study generated solid waste ranging from 24 to 1091 kg/day. The average medical waste generation in the studied privative hospitals was 4 kg/bed/day equal to 5.09 kg/patient/day. Common waste accounted for 70.73% of total hospital solid waste, while infectious and sharp waste accounted for 31.04% of the hospital solid waste. Infectious wastes were disinfected using autoclave in all hospitals. Conclusion: Segregation of infectious waste from hospital waste mass reduces the environmental and health risk of hospital waste and reduces the cost of waste management in private hospitals.

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德黑兰私立医院的医疗废物管理

背景：固体废物管理是医院管理的重要方面之一。研究方法在这项研究中，我们调查了德黑兰八家私立医院的医疗固体废物的数量和成分。为此，我们通过采访医院废物管理人员和收集医院废物产生信息，使用了一份核对表。本研究对所获数据的年平均值进行了分析。结果显示结果表明，所研究的私立医院每天产生 24 至 1091 公斤不等的固体废物。所研究的私立医院平均医疗废物产生量为 4 公斤/床/天，相当于 5.09 公斤/病人/天。普通废物占医院固体废物总量的 70.73%，而感染性废物和尖锐废物占医院固体废物总量的 31.04%。所有医院都使用高压灭菌器对感染性废物进行消毒。结论将感染性废物从医院废物中分离出来可降低医院废物对环境和健康造成的风险，并降低私立医院的废物管理成本。

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