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    Assessment of medical waste management in health facilities: A case study of Makambako health centre
    (2017) Mwakanyamale, Nuru
    INTRODUCTION: Healthcare wastes pose health problems to the people and affect environment in general. Since the WHO set rules and principles of handling medical wastes but in health facilities health workers lack awareness and knowledge on how to handle those medical wastes whereby there are no training sessions and seminars to them. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to determine the practices of medical waste management at Makambako Health Centre, examining awareness to health workers and assessing the factors affecting adherence to the MWM at Makambako Health Centre (MHC) to avoid occurrence of health hazards to those interacted with those medical wastes including patients and environment around the area. METHODS: The researcher made use of both primary and secondary data. The study also employed the use of cross section method to describe the BWM since it involve 60 of Health workers included in the study from Health facility using purposive sampling technique. A semi structured questionnaire and observational check list were used to collect data. Data were entered and analyzed using SPSS. FINDINGS: The study has revealed the following key findings it indicates that generally level of awareness of health workers in government strategies to address medical waste was 65.4% and only 34.6% were not aware. Also 82.7% said the practices are satisfactory and 19.3% said the practices are not satisfactory since are encountering different challenges in the medical waste handling practices including getting injuries when handling wastes. RECOMMENDATIONS: From the research findings study recommend that there is a need of having regular training programs to all workers in order to help them to know the risks associated with poor management of medical wastes also the notification of quantity of wastes generated to enable the proper allocation of resources in medical waste management.