Abstract
Under the medical waste includes all waste is created in health care facilities, regardless of its composition, characteristics and origin. It is a heterogeneous mixture of classical garbage, infectious, pathoanatomical, pharmaceutical and laboratory wastes, disinfectants and packaging, as well as other radioactive and chemical waste. Classification of medical waste in the European Union is determined by the European catalog of waste (EU Directive / Instruction Council / 2000/532/EC), which is taken in our regulations. Aim is to assess the first results and experiences of new infectious medical waste treatment in the Clinical Center of Kragujevac within the project: Technical assistance in the management of medical waste. Material and methods. Data on the amount of infectious medical waste that was processed in the Clinical Center Kragujevac were obtained from monthly reports by the finance team designed the project. Data processing was carried out with adequate mathematical and statistical methods to: tabulation, graphical display, determining measures of central tendency and variability measures, chi-square test and ANOVA test onefactorial. All data were processed in SPSS for Windows ver. 11.0. Results. In the period August 2008. until May 2009. Clinical Center in Kragujevac is processed a total of 73 860 kg of infectious medical waste. The largest amount was processed in November 2008. , and lowest in April 2009. year. Testing has found that there is a statistically significant difference in the amount of waste that is processed by months χ2=2352.98, p <0.01. Trend processed infectious medical waste volumes (calculated in kg) shows a decline for the reference period r=0.42 y=2.38 +0.95 h. Generally medical waste is a significant risk to hygiene and health especially health workers, and other workers in health care facilities, then, patients and persons who work in the collection, storage and disposal of waste. Inadequate removal of medical waste also is a source of environmental pollution, any contamination of waterways and soil, or air pollution through the emission of highly toxic gases. Introduction of infectious medical waste management is of utmost importance for improving the health of the population of Serbia and the improvement of the quality of health services.
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