Clinical Audit of Biomedical Waste Management, Awareness, and Challenges among Health Care Workers in Segregation of Biomedical Waste in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Puducherry-A Mixed-Method Study
Overall, biomedical waste management in the study setting was satisfactory. For improved compliance, the supervision and activities of the outsourcing facility must be improved. The study's findings on the challenges faced by health care workers in segregation can be used to improve biomedical waste management in the tertiary care hospital in Puducherry.
Authors
- Mahalakshmy Thulasingam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8326-2855)
- Pratima Agarwal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2368-4252)
- Indu Jalaja
- Premarajan Kariyarath Cheriyath
Institutions
- Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Indian Journal of Community Medicine
- Published
- 2025-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_622_24
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00