Investigating the quantity and quality of wastes in Shahid Chamran Hospital, Shiraz, in 2012-2013

摘要

A study has been carried out to investigate the quantity of health care waste produced in Shahid Chamran Hospital in Shiraz, Iran. The produced wastes were separated by their type and put into three groups of infectious, non-infectious and sharp wastes from the origin. White bins were used for ordinary wastes, and yellow bins for infectious wastes. Measuring the quantity of the hospital wastes was done under the supervision of the hospital's environmental health expert and the personnel responsible for gathering wastes, during a one-year period (first week of each month) and three times a day - in the morning, in the afternoon and at night-the amount of wastes was measured by scale in a 70 days period.