Healthcare Waste Status and Handling Practices during COVID-19 Pandemic in Tepi General Hospital, Ethiopia
Table 1
The amount of HCW generation rate and types of waste in Tepi General Hospital, Ethiopia.
Types of wastes
Weight of daily generated waste (mean in kg ±SD)
%
Weight of daily generated waste (kg/patient/day)
Weight of daily generated waste (kg/bed/day)
Weight of yearly generated waste (kg/year)
General waste
305.1 ± 2.1
61.9
0.4057
1.6228
111,361.5
Sharps waste
7.2 ± 0.9
1.5
0.0096
0.0383
2628
Pharmaceutical waste#
19.2 ± 0.5
3.9
0.0255
0.1021
7008
Infectious waste
158.7 ± 0.4
32.2
0.2110
0.8441
57,925.5
Pathological waste
2.3 ± 0.2
0.5
0.0030
0.0122
839.5
Total
492.5 ± 11.5
100
0.6548
2.6195
179,762.5
752 total patients visited the hospital during the data collection period; there were a total of 188 beds in the hospital during the data collection time; #nonhazardous pharmaceutical wastes were included in general waste.
