2. Hazardous medical waste unit generation rates were non-normal and highly skewed towards high values.
3. The official number of beds correlated positively with the total medical waste generation rates in the public hospitals. Therefore, the official number of beds can be used as a predictor of the total amount of medical waste generation rates. On the other hand, the large variance recorded for hospitals that belong to the same category are likely indications that other parameters may also affect medical waste generation rates.
4. No clear correlation was observed between the generation rates (in kg d 1) of the IFTX and TX medical wastes and the official number of beds.