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Table 2 Observational assessment of healthcare waste treatment and disposal practices in Bale zone hospitals, Southeast Ethiopia 2018

From: Self-reported healthcare waste segregation practice and its correlate among healthcare workers in hospitals of Southeast Ethiopia

Healthcare waste treatment and disposal practice description (n = 5)a

Yes

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

  1. aNumber of hospitals