CONTEXT Medical waste (MW) is all waste materials generated at health care facilities. MW naturally is hazardous for environment and subsequently for human. Waste minimization (WM) is the latest alternative for risk reduction. All hospital staff generally and nurses specially can play an active role through education and the implementation of measures to reduce medical wastage and their environ...

the existence of the average child. Once these youngsters, with only the white walls of the wards about them, could think only of " playing hospital," but now they imitate home life and do everything done by the little folk of the outside world. The miracle of it all is that these miniature homes and shops that the tots are making for themselves are all evolved from nothing but ordinary hospita...

It has been a long since problem of waste treatment and their disposal. Waste management does create a major problem if it is not properly performed. Various problems including different side effects occur to the people where untreated or partially treated waste is disposed, thus care should be taken while waste management and disposal. It becomes more difficult a job to perform radionuclide th...

The Quality Assurance Project (QAP) investigated strategies for increasing efficiency in hospital laboratory services, an area of hos­ pital operations that is frequently identified as high cost. The study developed measurement method­ ologies for seven separate sources of economic waste in hospital laboratories (unneeded tests, un­ claimed tests, resource use ineffi­ ciency, staffing inefficie...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the sustainability and effectiveness of training as an intervention to improve the knowledge, attitude and practices of hospital workers on health care waste management. METHOD We conducted this quasi-experimental study in two tertiary care teaching hospitals in Rawalpindi in October 2013. Training, practical demonstrations and reminders on standard waste management were...

Background and Objectives: Disposal of hospital wates is a significant environemtal concerns, particularly in develoing regions of the world. Addressing this challenge relies on availability of detailed data on the current status of wate management. Mazandaran Province is located in southern coast of the Caspian Sea and thus its environmental status may directly influe...