Thursday 29 June 2023

Assessment of Attitudes, Knowledge and Practices of Medical Waste Management among Healthcare Workers in Blantyre Urban Health Centres | Chapter 11 | Novel Perspectives of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences Vol. 8

 Health abilities generate extensive entrusting of healthcare waste that may be hard to control due to its talent to spread different contaminations if improperly handled. There is a need for healthcare employees who handles healthcare waste to have enough knowledge and stick to correct healthcare waste management. This paper wanted to assess knowledge, stances, and practices of medical waste Management with healthcare workers in selected well-being centres in Blantyre urban. A explanatory study design was deployed and analyse a study population constituting ten public health centres. Stratified random examination was used where (n) = 81 healthcare traders from 10 health centres were interrogated. Data were collected using organized questionnaires, and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was used in dossier analysis.The study revealed that information of medical waste management take care of have been enough, with 21% of the participants achieve below par. Some colleagues disclosed a good attitude towards healthcare waste administration, though 31% revealed good practices.The study decides that healthcare workers' knowledge, stances, and practices needed expected more satisfactory. Most health pros could have acted better on the knowledge of healthcare waste management, that places healthcare workers, sufferers and the community around the strength centre at risk. The investigator recommends that training, state of being an informal teacher and supervision in healthcare waste administration are needed as far as correct healthcare management is worried.

Author(s) Details:

Kenamu Libanga,
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The Catholic University of Malawi, Malawi.

Maureen Kapute Mzuza,
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The Catholic University of Malawi, Malawi.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/NPGEES-V8/article/view/11019

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