Survey Quantity and Quality of Solid Waste in Health-Care Centers in South of Tehran

One of the sources of municipal wastes is hospitals and health centers. Currently in Iran, details regarding the quantity and quality of wastes generated in health centers are not available and specialists are facing many unknowns in planning, systematic and accurate management of wastes generated in these centers. This is a cross sectional-exploratory and an applied study during 2017 in health-care centers in south of Tehran. In this study, evaluating the 90 checklist set during different seasons by environmental health experts, weights and volumes of regular and infectious wastes in health centers and management of wastes generated have been determined. The weight The of waste produced per person was 24 gr for regular waste and 13/6 gr for infectious-hazardous waste and 10 gr for sharp waste referring for each day. . The volume of waste produced per person was also 0/03 liters for regular waste and 0/014 liters for infectious-hazardous waste and 0/01 liters for sharp waste referring for each day. The amount of waste generated in health-care centers is much lower than that could be a serious challenge for the waste management of these centers according to the type of their activity that is administrative and educational centers. The weakness of waste separation and not prevention of mixing infectious and ordinary waste, the need to take training and further supervision of staff. The best performance of waste management system in these centers regarding the safe and accurate disposal of sharp wastes was in Safety box.