APPENDIX B

Results of Health Care Waste Audits for Government

Hospitals in Three States
HCW Audit Results in Karnataka Hospitals

100 beds 50 beds 30 beds

Health care waste (HCW) Kg % Kg % Kg %

Biomedical waste (BMW) 321.0 18.7 129.4 56.3 91.1 47.6

Plastics 108.9 6.3 39.1 17.0 8.8 4.6
Sharps 81.9 4.8 14.8 6.4 24.7 12.9
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Infectious waste 130.2 7.6 75.5 32.9 57.6 30.1

General (communal) waste 1,400.0 81.3 100.4 43.7 100.1 52.4

Total HCW 1,721.0 100.0 229.8 100.0 191.2 100.0

No. of days audited 31 29 31

Bed occupancy (%) 72 72 46

Kg/day
BMW 10.4 4.5 2.9
HCW 55.5 7.9 6.2

Kg/day/bed
BMW 0.10 0.09 0.10
HCW 0.56 0.16 0.21

Kg/day/occupied bed
BMW 0.14 0.13 0.21
HCW 0.77 0.22 0.45