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This lack of plan for healthcare waste management eventually leads to
inadequate waste segregation at point of use, collection, storage and
final disposal. This poor healthcare waste management practice creates
health hazards for health workers, patients and the environment.
Identified gaps like lack of colour code bags for segregation of
healthcare waste at point of use, lack of guidelines on segregation and
disposal for health workers lead to poor healthcare waste management in
hospitals. The mismanagement of healthcare waste by healthcare
facilities does not pose health hazard to health workers and patients
alone but also to patients’ visitors and the community where they are
improperly disposed by contaminating the soil, air and water. Healthcare
facilities are supposed to protect the health of people in their
environment, not to be a creator of potential health hazard for them.
Furthermore,
increase in patient turned-out has increase the generation of
healthcare waste. Mboguwe, Mimereki and Magashula(2008) also reported
that increase in population results to increase in healthcare facilities
that lead to increased healthcare waste generation. It is expected that
because of this increase, more attention should be paid to and priority
given to proper healthcare waste management in Abeokuta South Local
Government (ASLG). Management of healthcare waste continues to present
an array of challenges especially as economic situation of the country
deepen daily therefore, healthcare waste management has become a
concern.
So many studies have been conducted on healthcare waste
management but little or no work has been done concerning segregation of
clinical waste which is a vital aspect in healthcare waste management
(Coker, Sangodoyin, Sridhar, Booth, Olomolaiye, 2009). Segregation of
waste is crucial in healthcare waste management because it is the first
step in clinical waste management. Segregation of healthcare waste helps
in reduction of the quantity of waste that is hazardous. Once
healthcare waste are segregated, collection will be easy, proper storage
will be done and disposal of infectious waste carried out in the way
that it will not pose any harm to health workers, patients and the
environment (WHO, 2014). Proper management of healthcare waste depends
on good organization, sufficient funding and active participation of
trained personnel. It was observed that healthcare facilities were not
spending resources on clinical waste management Healthcare facility must
allocate resources for colour coded bags and training of generator of
healthcare waste for proper segregation and disposal for its
sustainability. The intention of this study is to assess healthcare
waste management practices at health facilities in Abeokuta South Local
Government.
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