Kalantary Roshanak Rezaei, Jamshidi Arsalan, Mofrad Mohammad Mehdi Golbini, Jafari Ahmad Jonidi, Heidari Neda, Fallahizadeh Saeid, Hesami Arani Mohsen, Torkashvand Javad
Research Center for Environmental Health Technology, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
J Environ Health Sci Eng. 2021 Mar 18;19(1):831-836. doi: 10.1007/s40201-021-00650-9. eCollection 2021 Jun.
Covid-19 Pandemic leads to medical services for the society all over the world. The Covid-19 pandemic influence the waste management and specially medical waste management. In this study, the effect of the Covid-19 outbreak on medical waste was evaluated via assessing the solid waste generation, composition, and management status in five hospitals in Iran. The results indicated that the epidemic Covid-19 leads to increased waste generation on average 102.2 % in both private and public hospitals. In addition, the ratio of infectious waste in the studied hospitals increased by an average of 9 % in medical waste composition and 121 % compared with before COVID-19 pandemic. Changes in plans and management measurement such as increasing the frequency of waste collection per week leads to lower the risk of infection transmission from medical waste in the studied hospitals. The results obtained from the present research clearly show the changes in medical waste generation and waste composition within pandemic Covid-19. In addition, established new ward, Covid-19 ward with high-infected waste led to new challenges which should be managed properly by change in routine activities.
新冠疫情给全球社会的医疗服务带来了影响。新冠疫情对废物管理，尤其是医疗废物管理产生了影响。在本研究中，通过评估伊朗五家医院的固体废物产生量、成分和管理状况，对新冠疫情爆发对医疗废物的影响进行了评估。结果表明，新冠疫情导致私立和公立医院的废物产生量平均增加了102.2%。此外，在所研究医院中，医疗废物中传染性废物的比例在医疗废物成分中平均增加了9%，与新冠疫情大流行之前相比增加了121%。诸如增加每周废物收集频率等计划和管理措施的改变，降低了所研究医院中医疗废物感染传播的风险。本研究获得的结果清楚地表明了新冠疫情期间医疗废物产生量和废物成分的变化。此外，设立新病房，即感染性废物较多的新冠病房，带来了新的挑战，需要通过改变日常活动来妥善应对。
