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RecShow '08
Middle East Recycling, Waste & Environmental
Management Exhibition & Congress
Successfully Concluded
on Feb. 19th , 2008
Application for Participation
(PDF)
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Hazardous Waste Characteristics
in Baghdad
Pilot Study: Hospital Waste
Dr. Dheyaa Wajid Abbood
Al-Mustansiryiah
University-Engineering College.
Bab-AL Muathem - P.O.14150,
Baghdad, Iraq
Email:envsearch2005[at]yahoo.com
Infectious waste in hospital is
generated during the diagnosis,
treatment, or immunization of human
beings or animals or in research
activities in these fields or in the
production or testing of biological.
It may include wastes like sharps,
soiled waste, disposables,
anatomical waste, cultures,
discarded medicines, chemical
wastes, etc. These are in the form
of disposable syringes, swabs,
bandages, body fluids, human
excreta, etc.
This waste is highly infectious and
can be a serious threat to human
health if not managed in a
scientific and discriminate manner.
It has been meanly determined that
of the 100 kg of waste generated in
a hospitals in Baghdad at range
16-28 kg would be infected.
During 2002 and 2006, six
governmental hospitals in Baghdad
were covered, included Baghdad
teaching,Al-Shaheid Adnan,Al-Mansor,
Al-Qadsiya, Al-Amam Ali and Ibn Al-baldi
hospital. Not only the annual
medical waste generation rate and
its composition but also generation
of some indicators correlating waste
generation and hospital capacity
were the objectives of the study.
Therefore, the security situation,
number of beds, occupancy rate of
the beds, number of employees and
staff, amount of medical waste and
household waste generated per day,
fuel consumption for heating,
collection, deposition,
transportation, and disposal of
wastes, recycling applied,
incineration plant capacity if
available were questioned during the
survey. In the composition research,
amount and type of wastes generated
were quantified together with number
of patients per day, number of
surgeries per day, number of births,
number of x-ray photography and
number of laboratory tests.
The main conclusion from this study
is infection diseases and illnesses
have already increased by 48% due to
terrorisms and violent accidents and
an accumulation of health issues, no
system of hospital waste management
in Baghdad, a lack of knowledge
among health staffs, a lack of
necessary supplies and facilities
and a lack of connections among
different ministries.
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