Solid​ Waste ​Management ​of​ Thabo​ Crown​ Prince ​Hospital,​ Thabo​ District,​ NongKhai ​Province

Abstract

This research was a Quasi-experiment research. Three objectives were to explored including the current status of solid waste management, the quantity of solid waste and infectious waste and the personnel knowledge, attitude and practice of the solid waste management of Thabo Crown Prince Hospital, Nong Khai Province. The data of pre and post training was collected by using questionnaires. The samples were divided in 2 groups; 10 executive and 194 operating staffs by using questionnaire. The data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, percentage, average. The current status of solid waste management in Thabo Crown Prince Hospital indicated that there were 63.9% staffs who had trained in solid waste management. For the collection of solid waste, there had the housekeepers in the divisions around 91% and around 93.6% of the staffs required to have training about the topic of solid waste
management. In quantity of solid waste aspect, the result for comparison the solid waste quantity of before and after training in month by month for the period of 2008 – 2009, August, September and October, showed that the quantity of solid waste were decreased at those months about 352, 550 and 605 kilograms. Respectively (7.7, 15.3 and 15.5%, respectively). The solid waste quantity per bed from before and after training was 44.7 and 39.1 kilograms per bed. At the solid waste management knowledge aspects, it found that 11.1% hospital staffs and 30.9% hospital executives increased their knowledge after training. The standard knowledge level of hospital staffs and executives increased 6.7 and 20%. The solid waste management practice of the most hospital staffs lack of discipline of separation general and infectious waste. However, after solid waste management training, the number of suitable solid waste management practice staffs increased to 13.5% with statistically signifcant at 95% confdence level.