Small hospitals are the grassroots for the
big hospital structures, so proper waste management
practices require to be initiated from there. Small
hospitals contribute a lot in the health care facilities,
but due to their poor waste management practices,
they pose serious biomedical waste pollution. A
survey was conducted with 13 focus questions
collected from the 100 hospital present in Dehradun.
Greater value of per day per bed waste was found
among the small hospitals (178 g compared with
114 g in big hospitals), indicating unskilled waste
management practices. Small hospitals do not follow
the proper way for taking care of segregation of waste
generated in the hospital, and most biomedical wastes
were collected without segregation into infectious and
noninfectious categories.