Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Biomedical Waste Management in Health Care Personnel of Saurashtra Region of Gujarat
Keywords:
health personnel, bio medical wasteAbstract
Background: Every concerned health personnel are expected to have proper knowledge, practice and capacity to guide others for waste collection and management.
Objectives: Objectives of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice regarding biomedical waste management among healthcare personnel.
Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study involving healthcare personnel of various PHCs & CHCs of the district. All the participants were interviewed personally by Predesigned and pretested questionnaire about various aspect of biomedical waste management.
Results: Out of the total 167 participants, 94.01% of healthcare person were aware about colour code system of waste segregation but only 64.07% knows that they are responsible for waste segregation. It was found that 95.80% healthcare personnel like to attain training and 92.81% of them believe that there should be legal provision for safe waste management. However, only 58.08% of them were practice of waste segregation into proper colour code bag and with using protective device.
Conclusion: knowledge and practice of various aspects of biomedical waste management are lacking in considerable amount in health personal and there is urgent need for regular on job training and enforcement of biomedical waste management rules at these levels.
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