Abstract
Biomedical waste management involves the identification, segregation, packaging, treatment,
disposal and other processes of hospital waste handling has been of growing interest in recent
times; owing to their hazardous nature, the potential risk to humans and the environment
especially in the hospitals settings, and the spread of dreaded diseases to humans and other
living organisms. To that end, a comparatively analyse of biomedical wastes was carried out
to ascertain the management practices in seven hospitals and three Primary health centres in
Yenegoa Metropolis, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The selected health facilities were categorised
into Tertiary, Secondary and Primary health institutions and grouped into Public and Private
owned facilities. The study adopted the purposive sampling technique in the selection of the
healthcare facilities for the survey; this is a non-probability sampling method where the
researcher chose a sample with the purpose to include a predetermined category of healthcare
facility of interest. However, the number of healthcare workers considered as population for
the study was collected from the administrative unit of the sample healthcare facilities and the
population in each facility was purposively selected to make the sample size of the study as 297
as shown in table 2.1 bellow. Data collection involved the use of about 297 questionnaire,
focus group discussions, secondary data, physical observations and photographs. The results
indicate that all facilities apart from one (that treat and incinerate their wastes), are involved
in disposing their generated waste into municipal dumpsites, and are involved in open burning
without any form of treatment. Again, it is observed that there is no proper training and
retraining of staff on biomedical waste management leading to environmental dis-aesthetic,
spread of diseases around the health institutions leading to the unhealthy exposure of patients,
h
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