Final Report on Consensus Building on Applicability of an Appropriate Waste Disposal System within Health Care Institutions of Pokhara Sub-metropolitan City

Abstract

Introduction: This report on the “Consensus building on applicability of an appropriate waste disposal system within health care institutions in Pokhara Sub-metropolitan City” has been prepared as per the “Terms of Reference” assigned by the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC). It forms a part of the ongoing NHRC programs on environmental health issues in Nepal. This project had been conducted with an objective to identify the present status and bottleneck of health care waste management system. This report has also analyzed the detail study on existing system; plan and policies related to health care waste to assess the applicability of an appropriate waste disposal system as well as to recommend appropriate waste disposal system within the HCIs of Pokhara Sub-metropolitan City (PSMC).