Hospital waste disposal practices at few health care centres in Mysore city, Karnataka, India:a case study

Shashikala, K. and Basavarajappa, S. (2018) Hospital waste disposal practices at few health care centres in Mysore city, Karnataka, India:a case study. World Journal of Advance Healthcare Research, 2 (5). pp. 191-197. ISSN 2457-0400

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Abstract

Mysore is one of the famous heritage cities in India, obtained clean city status three times from the Government of India. Despite its clean city status, Mysore is still facing shortcomings in hospital waste disposal. Published reports exclusively on hospital waste disposal are wanting and need updating. The present study was conducted systematically by selecting 20 hospitals, 22 small to medium sized clinics and 33 medical shops randomly from 20 different areas in Mysore city. Total 75 respondents from various health care centres (HCCs) were met personally and collected the data on waste production, amount of bio-medical waste produced per day, isolation, organisations involved in bio-medical waste collection, mode of disposal with the help of pre-tested questionnaire. Collected data was statistically analysed by following standard methods. Around 34 different types of wastes were recorded and produced from 0.1 to >20 kilograms per day from different HCCs. Most (96.2%) of the HCCs have stored the collected hospital waste in separate dust bins which were colour coded with green (2.4%), yellow (26.8%), red (17%), blue (32%), black (15%) and white (23%). Total 40% of the HCCs have collected and isolated the hospital waste during early morning hours and 57.3% of the HCCs have isolated during late evening hours of the day. Majority (94.7%) of the HCCs have disposed bio-medical waste every day. Around 21.7% hospitals, clinics and medical shops didn’t followed proper disposal practices. Majority (43.5%) of the HCCs have disposed bio-medical waste to municipality service centres. However, non-governmental agencies (NGO’s) and other agencies also helped while disposing the bio-medical waste in Mysore. Only, 13.8% private agencies have collected bio-medical waste for fuel purpose. The production of bio-medical waste is inevitable in every hospital, its scientific disposal is very essential to maintain hygiene and sanitation in urban centres.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	B Life Science > Zoology
Divisions:	Department of > Zoology
Depositing User:	LA manjunath user
Date Deposited:	22 Oct 2019 11:10
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2019 11:10
URI:	http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/9445

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