إدارة النفايات الطبية للمستشفيات في مدينة الديوانية و إمكانات استثمارها لتحقيق تنمية مستدامة

Abstract EN

Medical waste is one of the problems that emerged during the past two decades, which have negative impacts on public health and the environment, which continue to impede the path of sustainable development due to the lack of proper disposal and disposal of medical wastes.

However, the competent authorities do not pay much attention to this issue, despite the fact that That a large number of workers in medical institutions and workers in waste disposal facilities and the general public may be exposed to injuries or pollution as a result of unintended exposure to the waste of health institutions.

Therefore, attention by specialists in environmental issues and health professionals began to study it in all its dimensions, and efforts were made to reduce Raise it by managing it in a correct way.

The research aims to show the method of medical waste management for government hospitals in the study area and the methods of its treatment.

The research showed the lack of most hospitals in the orderly and correct application of medical waste management and the lack of awareness of workers in the collection of medical waste through the occurrence of confusion between medical waste and regular waste in some hospital departments, as it has not been done.

Marking waste bags to indicate their sources and from which department or division, and that the storage rooms do not meet the correct conditions recommended by the World Health Organization, and medical waste is treated in a threshing and sterilization device despite its advantages that reduce environmental pollution, but it has drawbacks and most hospitals are treated Its medical waste is in these two devices, which are available at Al Diwaniyah Hospital and the Maternity and Children Hospital, which is subjected to great pressure, which is subject to many malfunctions.

The research dealt with how to invest as an ideal solution to get rid of medical waste in order to achieve sustainable development, in addition to the proposals and recommendations that came out of the research.