Abstract:
Medical care is vital for our life and health, but the waste generated from medical activities
represents a real problem of living nature and human world. Improper management of waste
generated in health care facilities causes a direct health impact on the community, the health
care workers and on the environment Every day, relatively large amount of potentially
infectious and hazardous waste are generated in hospitals and health care facilities around the
world. This study conducted to identify the current practice of Health-care waste management
of particular hospital of Ampara district in Sri Lanka. For this study, the base hospitals of the
Ampara district was selected as a research population. In this research population, Nintavuer
base Hospital was selected as a sample. The quantitative cross-sectional descriptive survey was
used for the data collection. The top to the bottom staff of all units of the base hospital was
involved in this data collection. This study concluded that the workers agreed that education
on hospital waste management is very important. However most of the workers having lack
proper and complete knowledge on Healthcare Waste Management impact to practice of
appropriate waste disposals. Therefore, this study put forwards that all the staff should have
knowledge and handling methods related to healthcare waste management in the future. For
this, the health institution should provide proper knowledge to the health care workers.
