title: Waste management in small hospitals: trouble for environment.
abstract: Small hospitals are the grassroots for the big hospital structures, so proper waste management practices require to be initiated from there. Small hospitals contribute a lot in the health care facilities, but due to their poor waste management practices, they pose serious biomedical waste pollution. A survey was conducted with 13 focus questions collected from the 100 hospital present in Dehradun. Greater value of per day per bed waste was found among the small hospitals (178 g compared with 114 g in big hospitals), indicating unskilled waste management practices. Small hospitals do not follow the proper way for taking care of segregation of waste generated in the hospital, and most biomedical wastes were collected without segregation into infectious and noninfectious categories.
authors.affiliation: Waste Management Laboratory, Dolphin (P.G.) Institute of Biomedical and Natural Science, Manduwala, Chakarata Road, Dehradun, 248 007, India. deepakpant1@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: Deepak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pant
mesh_terms: D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008506:Medical Waste / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017744:Medical Waste Disposal / Q000379:methods; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D008506:Medical Waste; D017744:Medical Waste Disposal