title: Hospital waste management in nonteaching hospitals of lucknow city, India.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess hospital waste management in nonteaching hospitals of Lucknow city.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted on the staffs of nonteaching hospitals of Lucknow from September 2012 to March 2013. A total of eight hospitals were chosen as the study sample size. Simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of the nonteaching hospitals. A pre-structured and pre-tested interview questionnaire was used to collect necessary information regarding the hospitals and biomedical waste (BMW) management of the hospitals. The general information about the selected hospitals/employees of the hospitals was collected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean hospital waste generated in the eight nonteaching hospitals of Lucknow was 0.56 kg/bed/day. About 50.5% of the hospitals did not have BMW department and colored dustbins. In 37.5% of the hospitals, there were no BMW records and segregation at source. Incinerator was used only by hospital A for treatment of BMW. Hospital G and hospital H had no facilities for BMW treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a need for appropriate training of staffs, strict implementation of rules, and continuous surveillance of the hospitals of Lucknow to improve the BMW management and handling practices.
authors: Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Manish Kumar
authors: MK
authors: Manar
authors: Department of Community Medicine, Shrinivas Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Karnataka, India.
authors: Krishna Kumar
authors: KK
authors: Sahu
authors: Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Shivendra Kumar
authors: SK
authors: Singh
keywords: Hospital waste management; India; Lucknow city; nonteaching hospitals
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