Composition and production rate of medical waste from a small producer in Greece |
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| Authors: | Anastasios Graikos Evangelos Voudrias Athanasios Papazachariou Nikolaos Iosifidis Maria Kalpakidou |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, GR-671 00 Xanthi, Greece;2. Social Insurance Institute, GR-671 00 Xanthi, Greece;1. School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR China;2. School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China;3. Zhoupu Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, PR China;1. School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, PR China;2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan;3. Department of Public Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China;4. Shanghai Pudong New Area Zhoupu Hospital, No. 135 Guanyue Road, Shanghai 201318, PR China;5. East Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, No. 150 Jimo Road, Shanghai 200120, PR China;1. Laboratory of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece;2. Medical Biopathologist, General Hospital of Xanthi, Greece;1. Saint Joseph University, Faculty of Sciences, Chemistry Department, B.P. 11-514, 11072050, Lebanon;2. “arcenciel”, Environment Program, B.P. 165216, Beirut, Lebanon;3. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques Et Technologiques, Toulouse, France;1. Department of Mathematics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 641 046, India;2. Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Inje University 197 Inje-ro, Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, 50834, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Mathematics, Cankaya University, Balgat, Ankara, Turkey;4. Turkey and Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele, Bucharest, Romania;5. Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju- Si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea;6. CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Bangalore, India |
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| Abstract: | The objective of this work was to determine the composition and production rate of medical waste from the health care facility of social insurance institute, a small waste producer in Xanthi, Greece. Specifically, produced medical waste from the clinical pathology (medical microbiology) laboratory, the X-ray laboratory and the surgery and injection therapy departments of the health facility was monitored for six working weeks. A total of 240 kg medical solid waste was manually separated and weighed and 330 L of liquid medical waste was measured and classified. The hazardous waste fraction (%w/w) of the medical solid waste was 91.6% for the clinical pathology laboratory, 12.9% for the X-ray laboratory, 24.2% for the surgery departments and 17.6% for the injection therapy department. The infectious waste fraction (%w/w) of the hazardous medical solid waste was 75.6% for the clinical pathology laboratory, 0% for the X-ray laboratory, 100% for the surgery departments and 75.6% for the injection therapy department. The total hazardous medical solid waste production rate was 64 ± 15 g/patient/d for the clinical pathology laboratory, 7.2 ± 1.6 g/patient/d for the X-ray laboratory, 8.3 ± 5.1 g/patient/d for the surgery departments and 24 ± 9 g/patient/d for the injection therapy department. Liquid waste was produced by the clinical pathology laboratory (infectious-and-toxic) and the X-ray laboratory (toxic). The production rate for the clinical pathology laboratory was 0.03 ± 0.003 L/patient/d and for the X-ray laboratory was 0.06 ± 0.006 L/patient/d. Due to the small amount produced, it was suggested that the most suitable management scheme would be to transport the hazardous medical waste, after source-separation, to the Prefectural Hospital of Xanthi to be treated with the hospital waste. Assuming this data is representative of other small medical facilities, medical waste production can be estimated for such facilities distributed around Greece. |
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