Sustainable Management and Environment of the Hospital Wastes: A Comparative Study of Two Public Hospitals in Morocco

Abstract

The present work aims to study the waste management of infectious hazardous waste from two local hospitals in Morocco: Idrissi hospital of Kenitra and Ibn Baja hospital of Taza. This is a descriptive, exploratory, and cross-sectional study conducted in five departments: intensive care, maternity, emergency, dialysis, and medicine running from June to November 2018. The questionnaires were conducted on 160 health workers. It is remarked that, among 160 questionnaires distributed, 127 answers were obtained (response rate of 79.3%). During the six months of the study, 1778 observations were made. At the level of different care units, the results show that the WHAIR sorting was inadequate in 56% of the sections and the use of the color coding system was effective in 80% of the ones. The containers of the sharps collection were available in 80% of the suites and the transportation inside the hospital was done manually in 60% of cases. Approximately, 65.8% of the employees have not received any training and 90% believe that the outreach work is insufficient.