WDU - Waste Disposal Unit

Waste Disposal Unit (WDU) For Primary Health Facilities

Mismanagement of healthcare waste puts healthcare workers, patients and the community at risk from pathogens and from pollution due to burning in open pits or badly maintained incineration equipment. Primary health facilities require health care waste management systems to minimize the risk of contamination of patients, health workers and the general public from infectious waste. In this regard, Waste Disposal Unit (WDU) with Small Scale Incinerator (SSI), when used according to Best Practices, can be a cheap and comparatively less hazardous way of disposing of health care waste.

A WDU, based on the De Monfort SSI was constructed and tested at the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences. The experience, coupled with data collected from field trials of the De Montfort in Kenya, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Indonesia, enabled the current "Best Practices" for a Waste Disposal Unit to be formulated. These best practice guidelines provide clear technical specifications and engineering drawings for each component of the WDU. The guidelines have been published by PATH and can be downloaded from this site.




Staff at The Centre for Renewable Energy, Appropriate Technology and Environment (CREATE) have been providing medical waste disposal professional assistance to the World Health Organization, UNICEF, PATH and other International Agencies since 1980. CREATE manufactures Incinerators and Solar melters for use in low economic areas. It provides best practice guidelines and undertakes technical development of waste disposal technologies.
Waste Disposal Unit (WDU) For Primary Health Facilities Mismanagement of healthcare waste puts healthcare workers, patients and the community at risk from pathogens and from pollution due to burning in open pits or badly maintained incineration equipment. Primary health facilities require health care waste management systems to minimize the risk of contamination of patients, health workers and the general public from infectious waste. In this regard, Waste Disposal Unit (WDU) with Small Scale Incinerator (SSI), when used according to Best Practices, can be a cheap and comparatively less hazardous way of disposing of health care waste. A WDU, based on the De Monfort SSI was constructed and tested at the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences. The experience, coupled with data collected from field trials of the De Montfort in Kenya, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Indonesia, enabled the current "Best Practices" for a Waste Disposal Unit to be formulated. These best practice guidelines provide clear technical specifications and engineering drawings for each component of the WDU. The guidelines have been published by PATH and can be downloaded from this site.
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