Assessment Of Healthcare Waste Management Practices Among Health Workers

AbstractThe collection, storage, transport, treatment and disposal of medical wastes are of growing environmental problem in Nigeria, which needs immediate attention before it goes out of hand. In the studied government HCEs medical wastes are not properly managed. Most of the HCEs do not have nay budgetary provision to manage their generated waste systematically. Medical waste management is an integral part of health care. Because of the communicable diseases such as the AIDS/HIV and hepatitis Bad n C viruses, people are increasingly concerned over the disposal of medical waste. Many of the w…