In a new study, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi Dr Surya Prakash Singh, Professor, Department of Management Studies has highlighted how hospitals can choose a clean and sustainable way of disposing of medical waste. It paves the way for facilitating hospitals with a real-time decision support framework considering several criteria and constraints for selection of healthcare waste disposal firms.
This study identifies ten key success factors from literature and field surveys for selecting the best healthcare waste disposal firm. Firm’s experience, technology for disposal, and waste collection infrastructure act as a factor in selecting a health waste disposal firm.
“In Covid times, it becomes more relevant due to the increasing volume of healthcare waste and its hazardous and infectious composition such as syringes, masks, PPE kits, face shields, scalpels, bandages, bloodstained cotton, heavy metals and chemicals etc. The World Health Organization has also advocated for treating these wastes separately from other wastes such as non-hazardous municipal solid waste,” said IIT Delhi.
Key factors that the study advises to look into before finalizing a health waste disposal firm include manpower of a particular outsourcing firm, cases filed in a court of law against an HCW outsourcing firm, a claim filed by an outsourcing firm in a particular The cost of providing services to the hospital is included. The reputation of the existing clients of the HCW outsourcing firm, the number of years an outsourcing firm has been operating, the technology available with an outsourcing firm for disposal and recycling of HCW as well as the equipment and vehicles available with the outsourcing firm.
Other important factors include training and awareness programs about HCWs provided to housekeeping staff and patients, capacity planning for recycling of HCW collected by the outsourcing firm, and the risks associated with operating and disposing of HCWs.
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The research paper titled ‘Selection of Healthcare Waste Disposal Firms Using a Multimethod Approach’ by Professor Surya Prakash Singh and his colleague Dr. Ankur Chauhan, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida, India was published in the Journal of Environmental Management.
“The aim of this study is to propose a hybrid multi-criteria decision support framework integrated with mathematical models to tackle the issue of safe disposal of hazardous and infectious health-related waste. shows a direction in the selection of sustainable health waste disposal firms from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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