Biomedical Waste Generation and Management in Public Sector Hospital in Lagos City, Nigeria
- Author Odesanya B.O
- Co-Author Soile O.O.
- DOI
- Country : Nigeria
- Subject : Chemistry & Biochemistry
Keywords : Biomedical, Waste, Generation, Public Sector and Hospital
Abstract
The management of healthcare waste has been identified as a major problem confronting developing countries but very little empirical studies exist in this regard. This study examined the healthcare waste management practices of selected hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria. The study specifically compared the regulations and practices regarding healthcare waste management of public hospitals with that of private hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria. Our findings revealed that the public hospitals have waste management policy. One of the private hospitals does not have a waste management policy. Both the public and private hospitals have waste management plan as well as a waste management team.
Supervisory staff members of all the hospitals have waste management responsibilities included in their job descriptions. The findings of this study also indicated that the two public hospitals generate more wastes than the private hospitals. This is expected given that the public hospitals have more number of beds, wards and departments compared to private ones. Apart from one of the private hospitals, all the three hospitals segregate their waste into different categories. This is done by first identifying the waste type and then separating non-infectious or general waste from infectious waste.
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