This study, only 20.8% of respondents reported that
they knew about the existence of the WHO manual
on healthcare waste. This result was inconsistent with
the study done in South Africa in which about 46%
of HCWs knew the existence of the WHO manual
on healthcare waste. The finding on classification of
healthcare waste by WHO in this study was known
by 11.2% of the respondents and colour coding of
waste bins was known correctly by 10.0% of HCWs.
This finding was different from the study done on
assessment of biomedical waste management in
Ludhiana, India indicated that 95.8% HCWs knew
classification of healthcare waste and colour coding
system was known by 93.7%.21,22 This difference
might be due to the degree of emphasis of HCFs on
healthcare waste management, on job training and
the accessibility of healthcare waste management
documents in the working environment.