Authors : Taghreed Khudhur Mohammed, Salwa H. Nasser, Hassan M. Naif, Ali Hafedh Abbas, Mohammed Abed Jawad and Ali Shallal Alabbas
Abstract: The current status of biomedical waste of solid, liquid and gaseous formulations from medical and educational laboratories in Iraqi universities and research centers was assessed using a well-structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to scientists, researchers, medical technicians and graduate students who are directly involved in laboratory daily activities. The responses were analyzed statistically and interpreted accordingly. The results showed that the frequency of questionnaire respondent’s affiliation gave the highest percentage frequency (69.4%) with the questionnaire of Technical Medical Institute/Al-Mansour while constitute the responses of the Drug Control Department/Ministry of Sciences and Technology gave the lowest percentage frequency of the collected questionnaires (0.9%). Regarding to gender distribution was considered only among participants from two institutes whereas the other numbers were not meaningful. This showed more females participants (79.1%) among the TMI/MTU respondents than males (25.0%). The storage and assembling the chemical in appropriate, non-react able packaginga slightly higher positive response frequency compared to disagreement negative response (39.6 vs. 34.2%, respectively). Although, there were a few questions answered favorably toward a reasonable awareness about the dual use research and technology but it is till unsatisfactory for the rest of the questions raised in this important category. Biological waste management was very poor. All the workers in the study group work except incentral public health of laboratories have not good practices in biowaste management.
Taghreed Khudhur Mohammed, Salwa H. Nasser, Hassan M. Naif, Ali Hafedh Abbas, Mohammed Abed Jawad and Ali Shallal Alabbas, 2018. Current Status of Biomedical Waste Management in Some Universities in Baghdad and Central Public Health of Laboratories. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 10807-10814.