Evaluation of Healthcare Waste Management Practices and Problems Among Primary and Secondary Hospitals

Superior University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Healthcare Associated Infection

Treatments: Other: healthcare waste management

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06739863

MSAHS/Batch-Fall22/001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Healthcare waste is defined as the total waste stream from a healthcare facility. Most of it (75-90%) is similar waste to domestic waste and is known as healthcare general waste and is made up of paper, plastic packaging, food preparation etc. But as a similar proportion (10-25%) is hazards waste and requires special treatment. If these two categories of wastes are not separated properly then the entire volume of healthcare waste is considered as infectious and hazardous to human health and can result in disease and injury so it is necessary to set up a safe and integrated management system.

In this cross-sectional study public hospitals of Mianwali City will be selected by simple random sampling for observation of practices of hospital waste management.

Full description

The data will be collected through structured Questionnaire and possibly on-sit Quantitative data on waste management practices, types of waste, compliance with regulations, and perceived challenges.

Enrollment: 112 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Operation theatre Staff
• intensive care staff and labour room staff and laboratory room staff will be included.
• Doctors, Nurses, Nursing assistants, OT Technician, Maid's helpers, and sanitary workers.

Exclusion criteria

• Management staff will be excluded.

Trial design

112 participants in 1 patient group

Group Desc

Treatment:

Other: healthcare waste management