PMID: 16634211Apr 26, 2006Paper

Hospital solid waste: quantification. Bacteriological analyses--case of hospital Ibn Sina

La Tunisie médicale
Meriem BahriAbdelhamid Khadri

Abstract

Hospital waste represent, by their nature and their constitution, a big threat to health in the intra and extra hospital area. and a source of pollution for the environment. A 12-day campaign of weighing of the waste produced by the hospital Ibn Sina of Rabat-Morocco should an average of 1.75 kg/bed/day. In order to identify the hospital pathogenic germs as well as their sensitivities to antibiotics, some bacteriological analyses have been done on the percolat waste of this hospital. The results of these analyses put in evidence the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus and their resistance to some antibiotics.

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