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ASSESSMENT OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SOME HOSPITALS IN BASRAH | ||
| AL-TAQANI | ||
| Article 1, Volume 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 0-0 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The medical solid waste consider a portion from hazardous wastes, as they had unfavorable effects on persons who work in healthcare establishments, community and public health if it wasn't managed accurately. The matter become more difficult with absence of realization about the risks of medical waste, this led to weak application for medical waste management systems, especially in third world countries. The target of research is to give clear view about actuality of solid waste management in Basrah hospitals and the methods used to treat it, in addition to estimation of the waste quantities produced by hospitals and to suggest a safety environmental program to manage this waste. To get the targets of the research , the big local hospitals in Basrah were selected. The results gave : 1- The generation rates of solid waste for the Basrah hospitals was between ( 1.85-3.53 kgedday), the percent of medical waste was 18% of the total waste, while the domestic waste was 78%, and the pathologic waste was 4%. 2- Most of hospitals in Basrah ruin to a regular application for solid waste management concept and to absence of consciousness for the persons who work in medical waste domain. 3- All solid waste incinerators were old and work with low temperature (not more than 400 cْ ) which make them as a source of poisons gases emissions such as dioxin which case cancer. 4- The ash of incinerations which contain a percent of heavy poison elements and pathogenic agents was disposed into dumps of domestic waste, then the danger effects of it on environment will be big. 5- The wrong dealing with chemical pharmaceutical waste which used to treat the cancer patients and considered it as the remain medical waste, that will cause a very big dangerous on the persons dealing with it directly, because of the ability of these materials to kill humanity cells or creation of a deformity for it. | ||
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