Figure 4.2: Low Cost Incinerator - Double Chamber Demont fort Incinerator at Buguruni
Source: Study Findings
Figure 4.3: Low Cost Incinerator - Single chamber incinerator at Magomeni Health Centre
Source: Study Findings
Figure 4.4: Bottom Ashes after Incineration
Source: Study Findings
This shows that hospitals are operating without a recommended disposal facility will end up contaminating the living environment which may pose risk to health of the people in a number of ways like microbial infection, inhalation of polluted and contaminated air, water and soil.
Qadeer (2013), in his assessment of Karachi hospitals without incinerators revealed that most of the hospitals were without safe disposal facilities and waste was disposed of with other municipal garbage. This resulted in high risk practices leading to the spread of deadly transmittable diseases including AIDS, hepatitis B and C among many others especially among scavengers.
The hospital waste is also hazardous for garbage collecting staff on municipalities who transport the waste to the landfill sites. Hospital waste includes human anatomical waste, waste from surgeries and autopsies, needles, syringes, saws, blades, broken glass, nails, pathological waste, tissues, organs, body parts, human flesh, foetuses, blood and body fluids (Qadeer, 2013).
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