Student
Dissertation 2nd Batch 
A Study on Exposing a serious waste- Quality and quantity of waste produced by a tertiary health care facility in Dhaka city.
Farah Naz Hossain
Abstract
Objective
This plan endeavors to highlight the results from the study undertaken in the largest government health care facility in Bangladesh with an aim to asses the quality and quantity of waste produced, to observe the existing waste management practices and to understand the knowledge and perception of the direct waste handlers or sweepers in this aspect. In pursuing their aims at reducing health problems and eliminating potential risks to people’s health, health care facilities inevitably create wastes that may itself be hazardous to health. Disposal of medical waste, particularly the waste contaminated with communicable disease agents such as the AIDS and Hepatitis B viruses has thus emerged as a major problem worldwide. Wherever it is generated, management of hospital waste is of substantial concern and there is rising necessity to address this issue effectively at the earliest. As any other developing country, Bangladesh is also suffering from the ‘bad management disease’ in medical waste disposal sector. At this point, there is urgent need for devising feasible and environment friendly methods of waste disposal in the health care facilities. However, before further planning is undertaken health care establishments should make estimates of their own waste production, particularly for infectious health care waste. According to WHO guideline for medical waste management, even a limited survey will probably provide more reliable data on local waste generation than any estimate based on data from other countries or types of establishment.
