TY - JOUR ID - 2418 TI - QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL WASTE GENERATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE STUDY IN ISFAHAN (IRAN) JO - Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions of Civil Engineering JA - IJSTC LA - en SN - 2228-6160 Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 38 IS - C2 SP - 409 EP - 420 KW - Health care KW - medical KW - hazardous KW - waste KW - waste audit KW - developing countries DO - 10.22099/ijstc.2014.2418 N2 - Quantitative assessment and statistical analysis of medical waste generation atprovincial scale in Isfahan was conducted. Results indicated that 59% of the total wastes producedwere non-hazardous (general) wastes and the rest were hazardous medical wastes. More than 98%of centers implemented source separation of the wastes at source. Also, more than 91% had astorage room, but only 48% of storage rooms were operated under standard conditions, i.e. storagewith appropriate ventilation and temperature control. Only about 21% of medical centers haddesignated collection vehicles. For the remaining 79% of facilities, the medical wastes werecollected (comingled) and transported together with the general or non-medical wastes. As for thetreatment of medical wastes, only 7% of centers were equipped with autoclave. Although 22% ofcenters had incinerators, the majority of them were not functional. Collected wastes from 29% offacilities were disposed together and mixed with the municipal wastes at the same landfilltrenches. Wastes from the remaining 71% of centers were landfilled in separate trenches. Thewaste generation rates for total waste and general (non-hazardous) waste were 3.03 and 1.84kg/active beds/day, and 1.03 and 0.65 kg/employees/day, respectively. Using multivariateregression analysis of data an empirical equation (Y = 0.55 * NEM + 1.44 * NAB) was establishedto predict the total amount of waste generated at each facility (Y) as a function of number of activebeds (NAB) and number of employees (NEM) of the facility. Strong correlation (R2 = 0.97)between the observed and predicted values was observed. UR - https://ijstc.shirazu.ac.ir/article_2418.html L1 - https://ijstc.shirazu.ac.ir/article_2418_9216d0a563d024c0edad2e847dd29774.pdf ER -