This study describes the evaluation of medical waste management in the largest hospital in terms of the number of sections and the number of patients and visitors to Alshaabaniya and Bidar Hospital in Zakho city , Iraq's Kurdistan region .Found through this study the number of the patients referred to hospital for the various tests of males and females in different ages is about (691758 patients)and the number of the patients who remained is about( 32926) which lasted for two years as of (15/06/2015-30/05/2017 ). The amount of hazardous medical waste was reported at the above mentioned clinics respectively is about( 27250 Kg)/ (5711 Kg). The goal is to reduce the rate of medical waste generation, both in terms of quantity and quality, by developing the technology used, adopting clean technology, and selecting substitutes or primary materials that are less invasive of the environment and public health. But the result of study show the existence of administrative practices of improper disposal of medical waste in terms of the separation of hazardous and non-medical waste operations and this is due to the negligence and carelessness in the instructions issued by the authorities of administrative supervising the application of the collection, separation, transport and storage of the waste temporarily inside hospital pending transfer to operations final treatment with municipal waste. In addition to the lack of environmental awareness among workers in the field of hygiene and lack of provision of required equipment for personal protection and the lack of a program or plans to train workers in hygiene and how to deal with the medical waste and Prevention , Note that the continuous production of waste per day throughout the year, so it is necessary to work hard to improve the administration consistently and effectively and to work hard to provide the infrastructure necessary for the success of the administrative process require
2018-11
Thesis
2009-06-15
Elements of Environmental management of hazardous medical waste in university hospital Dusseldorf in Germany are a case study
This study describes the importance of environmental management system on the hazardous medical waste treatment as well as the evaluation of its role in the collection and separation of different wastes produced from different clinical departments at the University Hospital Dusseldorf .Germany. the study found that the annual average of the hazardous wastes during the last six years about (7272)Kg. This huge quantity of such hazardous waste needs an urgent and special environmental management to collect, transport, temporary storage and safe transport within the hospital building until transferred to the treating location station .Also there is a great need for qualified persons to manage these kinds of medical wastes. The responsible department for these wastes was the environmental protection department, directed by the assistant director of the hospital. This department was responsible for the following processes such as collection, separation, labeling storage and documenting of all kinds of hazardous wastes .It was found that these wastes was collected every two weeks and stored temporarily until the special environmental treating company comes to transport them to the final treating location, which were different and specific.
2009
Conference
international conference on advanced science and engineering 2018 (ICOASE 2018)
2018-10
IEEE
the conference was about nano-structures and technology that was sponsored by IEEE and held in partnership between University of Zakho and Duhok polytechnic University
