Medical Waste Statistics, 2018 in Turkey

Within the scope of medical waste statistics, it was determined that 89 thousand 454 tonnes of medical waste was collected from 1 550 health institutions in operation by the end of 2018. In 2018, the amount of medical waste collected increased by 4% compared to the previous year.

7.7% of medical waste was disposed of in incineration plants

Of the total medical waste, 92.3% was disposed of in landfill sites after sterilization, whereas 7.7% was disposed of in incineration plants.
82.9% of medical waste was collected in metropolitan cities
82.9% of 89 thousand 454 tonnes of medical waste collected in health institutions were collected in thirty metropolitan cities. 25.1% of the total medical waste was collected in İstanbul, 7.6% in Ankara and 6.4% in İzmir, thus 39.1% of the total medical waste was collected from the health institutions located in these three metropolitan cities.
The next release on this subject will be on November 27, 2020.
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Medical Waste Statistics 2016 and before, was produced based on the results of the survey conducted by Turkish Statistical Institute which was applied to the health institutions listed in Medical Waste Control Regulation as producers of large quantities of waste (university hospitals and their clinics, general purpose hospitals and their clinics, maternity hospitals and their clinics and military hospitals and their clinics).
Since 2017, Medical Waste Statistics are prepared and published annually by using medical waste data from health institutions (university, maternity and general purpose hospitals and clinics) in the administrative records of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization.

Source: TurkStat
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