Management of Infectious waste from Debarattana Hospital

Abstract

This research was study the infectious waste management in Debarattana hospitalsince 2017 october 1^st to 2018 September 30^rd. The representative sample are 24 departments and 25 housekeepers in the hospital. For the summary of this research presents Top 5 units’s infectious waste are Intensive care unit, Male medical ward, Operative room, Female surgery ward and Labor room about 5,744 5,241 5,155 4,777 and 4,720 kilograms in the order. The least unit’s waste are Pharmaceutical department and Meeting room about 29 kilograms or 0.05 percent. Infectious waste rate‘s hospital is 0.70 kilograms per bed per day. From questionnaire data can explain that house keeper who work more than 3 years and learn about infectious waste management is better than who work less than 1year and never know about management. The house keeper who work more than 3years. They know about how to keep infectious waste and waste disposal correctly. Problems to infectious waste disposal are separate of wrong waste type, Waste bags are not enough and Distance to garbage plant so far. In addition quality assurance for 7 parts are correctly. As a result, the appropriate management was performed. There was conducting a work instruction of infectious waste management, particularly separation and collection procedures 1time per year. To decrease waste pollution and relate to public.