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Medical waste generation rate and management practices among government hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia. A descriptive survey.
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- Predictive modeling of medical waste and a proposal to improve segregation in a peruvian hospital.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Introduction: Healthcare facilities generate medical waste, also known as healthcare waste or health facility waste, during the healthcare delivery process, which is improperly managed as a result of underfunded healthcare systems, poor training, and lack of awareness of policies and legislation on handling medical waste as well as do not have national guidelines in place to adhere to the correct disposal of such wastage in developing countries like Ethiopia. Objectives: To estimate the healthcare waste generation rate among selected public hospitals in eastern Ethiopia. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was conducted in eight public in eastern Ethiopia from 1st June 2023 to 30th July 2023. The "Bed-Patient-healthcare wastes" model was used to estimate the healthcare waste generation rate based on WHO and empirical evidence. HCW generation rate = No of (Inpatients (Inpts) + Outpatients (Outpts))/day*0.53 kg/day. Meanwhile, general (GW), infectious (IW), pharmaceutical (PW), sharps (SW), and pathological (PtW) are computed as follows: GW = No. of (Inpt + Oupt)/day*0.53 kg/day and IW, PW, SW, and PtW = No. of Inpts/day*0.53 kg/day. In contrast, for hazardous and non-hazardous healthcare wastes, No of HCWs/day*0.8 and no. of HCWs/day*0.2 were utilized, and Key informant interviews and field observational were also applied. Descriptive analysis such as percentage, mean, and standard deviation were presented. Result: According to the current assessment, 105.1-142.8 kg/day healthcare waste was generated from outpatient and 167.3-244.2 kg/day from inpatients of public hospitals. From these, the Mean ± SD of daily healthcare waste generation rate estimated by non-hazardous and hazardous waste were 164.6 ± 80.9 kg/patients/day and 41.2 ± 20.2 kg/patients/day, respectively. In daily generation, the mean and standard deviations (Mean ± SD) of general wastes, infections waste, pharmaceutical wastes, sharp wastes, and pathological waste/patient were 62% (521.9), 23% (194.8), 4% (35.4), 2% (17.7), and 9% (70.9), respectively. Conclusion: The current assessment concluded that a large volume of healthcare waste is generated from selected public hospitals, which were not effectively segregated, separated at the source, and haven't conventional or standard treatment. As a result, the study advised that regional and global collaboration in hospital waste and wastewater management be encouraged.
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