THE PRACTICE AND CHALLENGES OF BIOMEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT: A study of Selected Medical Facilities in Ile Ife, Osun State

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dc.contributor.authorOla, A.B.
dc.contributor.authorBako, A.I.
dc.contributor.authorAbdulraheem, M.O.
dc.contributor.authorRaheem, W.M.
dc.contributor.authorRaheem, W.A.
dc.contributor.authorAdewale, Y.Y.
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-21T10:37:36Z
dc.date.available2019-06-21T10:37:36Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn pursuing their aims of providing treatment and safeguarding the health of the people against illnesses, health-care services inevitably create waste that is hazardous to health and whose management has remained a great challenge due to its highly toxic contents. This paper examines the practice of biomedical waste management in some medical facilities in Ile-Ife with a view to determining the risks associated with the practice. Four medical facilities with some level of sophistication in waste management were purposively selected for study. The type of waste generated was determined by sorting of waste while handheld scale was used to determine the volume of waste generated. Questionnaire was used to obtain information from the waste management and medical staff of the selected medical facilities. Descriptive (frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistics (Multinomial logistic regression) were used in analysing the data. The study established that the daily per capita waste generation in the medical facilities was 0.51kg. Scrap (Syringes and absorbent paper) (96.7%), infectious (Excreta and dressing swabs) (72.9%) and pathological wastes (Human tissue and body fluid) (57.0%)were the most generated waste while open dumping and pit burial of waste were widely practiced among the medical facilities. Exposure to harmful chemical and radioactive waste (68.8%)and injuries from sharps (52.3%)pose serious health risks not only to the waste managers but health care workers. The paper holds that solutions to the challenges of biomedical waste management practices lie in strict adherence to the global best practices as recommended by the World Health Organisation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2285
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Ilorinen_US
dc.subjectBiomedical Waste;en_US
dc.subjectMedical Facilities;en_US
dc.subjectIncinerationen_US
dc.subjectRadioactive Wasteen_US
dc.subjectInfectionsen_US
dc.titleTHE PRACTICE AND CHALLENGES OF BIOMEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT: A study of Selected Medical Facilities in Ile Ife, Osun Stateen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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