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Assessment of Medical Waste Management Practices in Selected Hospital (A Case Study of Owo, Ondo State)

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  • Sule Idowu

    (Global Wealth University, Togo)

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The study examined assessment of medical waste management practices in selected hospital and adopted descriptive crosssectional design utilizing quantitative method of data collection. Simple random sampling was used to select 244 health care personnel comprising of doctors, nurses and support staff all from the casualty, orthopedic and the general surgery departments. Structured questionnaires were administered to them for quantitative data. Quantitative data were analyzed using the quantitative program for social and market research (QPSMR) and chi squares and the level of significance was set at P ≤0.05. Descriptive statistics were carried out to determine relative frequencies, percentages and means of variables. The results showed that most of the healthcare personnel were aware of the medical waste management practices in the hospital and the practices were satisfactory. However, awareness of medical waste management practices in this institution can still be improved, especially in the segregation aspect since only 44% of the study population was aware of the correct segregation practices. Education was seen to have a significance influence on medical waste management with mean chi square results X2(2, N=244) = 7.4408, P = 0.03165(p

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  • Sule Idowu, 2024. "Assessment of Medical Waste Management Practices in Selected Hospital (A Case Study of Owo, Ondo State)," International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), vol. 11(15), pages 613-635, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bjc:journl:v:11:y:2024:i:15:p:613-635
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