Healthcare waste treatment and disposal practice description (n = 5)a | Yes |
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A designated area for waste treatment and disposal | 5 |
Waste disposal site fenced | 1 |
Having walkway to waste disposal site | 3 |
On-site treatment of HCW practiced | 5 |
On-site disposal of HCW | 5 |
Presence of incinerators | 5 |
Incinerators with some form of problems related to design and construction witnessed | 5 |
Incinerators had remnants of incompletely burned HCW witnessed at the time of observational assessment | 3 |
Presence of safe burial | 0 |
Open pit/ open air/ burning and damping of HCW | 5 |
Presence of placental disposal pit | 5 |
Properly constructed watertight ash/needle pit witnessed | 0 |
Offsite disposal (outsourcing) of HCW | 0 |