Health Care in Society
Corporate Structure, Governance, Culture and Social Responsibility
In the low income countries and communities, the problem of poor waste management is due to the management. By management, this includes the selected committee that oversees waste management with a chairman to overlook the work, a secretary to keep record of the proceedings of meetings, a treasurer to oversee that costs allocated for the purpose of waste management are properly utilized and lastly, legal affairs which are concerned with the welfare of the community and the health care organization as well. The purpose of such a committee is to oversee the community is not put at any risk of infection or contact with health care waste as this is associated with so many negatives.
Poor waste health care waste management is associated with failure of the administration, and lack of concern for the community affected. Some ways to improve this include: the involvement of an inspector from the government level, and a routine inspection of the same accompanied with proper documentation of the meetings held and the people involved with the disposition of wastes as well as the quantity of each kind of waste disposed and the present situation of the dispose site. The disposal rules must be provided and followed to the letter by the responsible persons.
In addition, programs must be put into place to educate the community as to how clinical and non clinical waste must be disposed as this will help curb infections or ailments resulting from community knowledge on the same. The community should also report cases of poor health care waste management and proper actions taken on the responsible persons and measures to prevent the same. This will assist in curbing the poor culture in any health care organization and put reenergize the focus of proper waste management at individual level.
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