Research Article
Healthcare Waste Status and Handling Practices during COVID-19 Pandemic in Tepi General Hospital, Ethiopia
Table 2
Distribution of types and amount of daily hazardous waste generation rate at each service unit of Tepi General Hospital.
| | Name of case teams | Sharps (kg/day) | Infectious (kg/day) | Pharmaceutical (kg/day) | Pathological (kg/day) | Total hazardous waste (kg/day) |
| | Wards | 2.4 | 65 | 8 | 0 | 75.4 | | Gynecology | 1.5 | 31 | 4.1 | 1.8 | 38.4 | | Laboratory | 1.3 | 30 | 5 | 0.3 | 36.6 | | OPD | 1.7 | 29.7 | 2 | 0.2 | 33.6 | | Radiology | 0.3 | 3 | 0.1 | 0 | 3.4 | | Kitchen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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