Hospital Waste Management During COVID-19

Abstract

Any solid, liquid, or gas substance used will be immediately discarded. The substance waste dumped is conducted in every place, including hospitals. The hospital management system covers hospital waste management. This management allows the hospital to monitor the amount and variants of waste produced, which minimizes the harmful effects of waste. However, in this topic, systematic analytical mapping studies still have a lot of research limitations. This study aims to analyze Hospital Waste Management during the peak of COVID-19 which is presented as a systematic review. This research applied the qualitative method with a literature study approach. The hospital waste management articles identified from 2011-2021 amounted to 686 publication articles that Scopus indexed, indicating that hospital waste management studies have increased in recent years. The expansion in the study mainly was research on hospital waste management from the inner side of hospital management. Many studies on hospital waste management from processing, environmental impact, and the risk of spreading infections have been studied from the COVID-19 side since 2019. This finding has implications for further research by analyzing the problems related to the rapidly growing field of hospital waste management in detail or using a different perspective. Keywords: Hospital Waste, Waste Management, Hospital Waste Management, COVID-19, Systematic Review.