Résumé
Objective: To describe hospital waste management plan in our setting for primary to tertiary hospitals and to make it environmental friendly with respect staff safety
Study Design: Observational / cross sectional study
Place and Duration of Study: This study was carried out at Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur from May to August 2015
Materials and Methods: This study carried out as an assignment for the course of Environmental and Occupational Health point of view. Data has been collected from the staff of the BV Hospital and the Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur as our study subjects. The purpose of this paper is to outline the hospital waste management plan in our setting from primary to tertiary hospitals in a comprehensive way to put forward suggestions for further improvement
Results: Among the hospital staff particularly doctors were not aware of any hospital waste management protocol/plan. Similarly nobody form the hospital staff recalled any training program or such activity to be performed in their respective wards or departments since ever. Just the concerned nursing staff had sort of interaction with the sanitary workers and the sweepers engage in their routine hospital cleaning process supervised by the sanitary inspectors. As such no health facilities had properly implemented any hospital waste management plan in accordance to expected standard and practices; just routine maintenance of the hospital cleanliness is being carried out and the wastes were collected and moved to the point of transportation or being transported direct to its disposal point
Conclusion: There is need to develop Hospital Waste Management policy and plan for institutions along with its allocation of appropriate funds. Hosp Waste disposal standard operating procedures in a way that such model can be implemented anywhere by little modification as per need assessment basis in all of our healthcare settings
Résumé
Objectives: To assess food habits of school going children from a high socio-economic background, Establish food frequency of commercially available foods and to determine the risk factors and to suggest the way to control these risk factors
Study Design: Cross sectional study
Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Department of Community Medicine, Al-tibri Medical College, Isra University, Karachi from 31stMay to 30thJuly, 2015
Materials and Methods: This survey was carried out on 200 students age of 6-12 years enrolled in KAS school belong to high socioeconomic group, randomly selected for interviews through an administrated structured food frequency questionnaire. This survey was conducted in three days during 8am to 3pm. All students who visited the health office for any reason were asked to participate in the study
Results: The mean age of respondents was 12.7 +/- 3.7 years. Thirty-nine reported missing at least one meal a day. Averagely the students consumed 4.2meals per day. Most frequently missed meal was evening tea/snack [n=17], followed by midday snack [n=12]. Few students reported missing lunch [n=3] or dinner [n=2] during the week
Conclusion: Students need to be encouraged to take healthy foods, by creating opportunities for better choices. Health education strategies can be effective implemented in a school setting through innovate means can ensure better outcomes