Bio-Medical Waste management: KAP study on Health Care Personnel working in Private Hospitals of Bangalore city
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Aims: The aim of our study was to analyze the knowledge attitude and practice (KAP) of biomedical waste management among health care personnel in private hospitals of Bangalore city in South India. Materials and Methods: Study was conducted among 550 health care personnel which included doctors, nurses, housekeeping staff and laboratory technician. The results were obtained and evaluated. Results: It was found that the there is a significant difference between the knowledge of doctors, nurses, housekeeping staff and laboratory technicians and within each group. 60.5% of the health care personnel had not attended any training and 39.5% had attended training. Conclusion: The results of this study reveals that lack of knowledge regarding handling of bio medical waste, to emphasis on this training has to done for the staff in the hospitals, the staff should be trained to improve the practice of safe managemen
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Md Mustafa Ahmed, C Pradeep, Manasa R V, Suhail Ambi, Vikas Jaiswal
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