1 Supply Chain Department, Aspin Pharma (Pvt) Ltd, Karachi, Pakistan.
2 Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Waste Manag Res. 2018 Apr;36(4):386-394. doi: 10.1177/0734242X18755894. Epub 2018 Feb 16.
To address environmental issues and cost effectiveness, waste management is necessary for healthcare facilities. Most importantly, segregation of hazardous and non-hazardous waste must be done as in many developing countries; disposal of both types of healthcare waste is done together, which is an unsafe practice. Waste generated in hospitals needs proper management to minimise hazards for patient and healthcare workers. At the same time, it is quite difficult for hospitals to find a systematic way to select appropriate suppliers for hospital waste management. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to identify, validate, and rank criteria that are essential for hospital waste management suppliers' selection. The analytical hierarchal process approach has been used and a survey from Pakistan's largest city (Karachi) has been considered to rank the most appropriate criteria that is necessary to select the supplier, especially in a developing country like Pakistan. Results show that waste management cost (45.5%) and suppliers' details (31.5%) are the top two main criteria for supplier selection; and storage cost (15.7%), waste handling cost (14.7%), and qualification of the suppliers (10.9%) are the top three most important overall sub-criteria for supplier selection for hospital waste management.
为了解决环境问题和成本效益，医疗机构有必要进行废物管理。最重要的是，正如许多发展中国家一样，必须对危险废物和非危险废物进行分类；而这两种类型的医疗废物都被一起处理，这是一种不安全的做法。医院产生的废物需要妥善管理，以尽量减少对患者和医护人员的危害。同时，医院很难找到一种系统的方法来选择合适的医院废物管理供应商。因此，本文的目的是确定、验证和对医院废物管理供应商选择的必要标准进行排名。本文采用了层次分析法，并考虑了巴基斯坦最大城市（卡拉奇）的一项调查，以对最适合选择供应商的标准进行排名，特别是在巴基斯坦这样的发展中国家。结果表明，废物管理成本（45.5%）和供应商详细信息（31.5%）是供应商选择的前两个主要标准；而储存成本（15.7%）、废物处理成本（14.7%）和供应商的资质（10.9%）是医院废物管理供应商选择的前三个最重要的总体子标准。
