Awareness on Covid-19 Waste Management Among Health Care Professionals: a Case Study in Dhaka City

Abstract

The research was conducted on awareness of COVID-19 waste management among health care workers. The study aimed to figure out existing scenario of COVID-19 waste segregation practice and developed awareness of highly contagious COVID-19 waste among waste dealing workers. A descriptive type of cross sectional study were performed through simple random sampling technique among health care professionals. The study revealed that all had knowledge about adverse effects of biomedical waste ,only 38% used PPE where 86% received training on that.82% received training on COVID-19 waste management but only 42% segregated COVID-19 waste in workplace .Moreover ,53.94% respondents mixed COVID − 19 waste with normal waste. The prevalence of COVID-19 was 1.92 times greater in trained worker than in non-trained worker due to their poor waste segregation practice. For that reason, Health care worker had 2.05 times higher likelihood of having the disease compared to the untrained worker during first two month of their infection. It is high time to change their practice.Finally the research will be helpful in planning and allocation of health resources. More awareness should be developed among health care worker.