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Abstract
Medical waste is composed of waste that is generated or produced as a result of any of the following actions: diagnosis, production or testing of biological, accumulation of properly contained home-generated sharps waste, and removal of a regulated waste from a trauma scene by a trauma waste management practitioner (Marinković et al., 2008).
Hospital waste includes risk or hazardous, and non-risk or non-hazardous waste. Risk waste comprises infectious waste, sharps, chemical waste, pathological waste, genotoxic waste, pharmaceutical waste, and radioactive waste etc., whereas, non-toxic waste includes garbage, packages, card-boards, organic food-stuff that patients or their relatives leftovers (Rasheed et al., 2005).
People at risk of healthcare hazardous waste include healthcare workers, patients, visitors to healthcare establishments, workers in support services, workers in waste disposal facilities, fetuses in the wombs of mothers, members of public and scavengers (Diaz et al, 2005).
This present study was conducted in Menoufia governorate to evaluate medical waste management.
Representative sample from different hospitals in Menoufia governorate was chosen by stratified random sample to evaluate the hospital waste management either in governmental or private hospitals. All workers of the treatment stage for hospital waste either incineration or integrated shredding and sterilization at these hospitals were included (cluster sample).Total number of workers was 28 workers.