According to the results from the survey, 93.3% of the hospitals had a temporary storage location. This situation is better than in some other cities. Da Silva et al. (2005) reported that in southern Brazil about 85% of hospitals have external storage areas for medical waste management. Birpinar et al. (2008) reported that in Istanbul 63% of the hospitals have a temporary storage depot and 94% of these depots satisfy the MWCR requirements. Askarian et al. (2004) reported that in Iran 80% of hospitals have a temporary storage area.
Of the hospitals in this study, 75% had well sanitized temporary storage areas, compared to 26.7% of the hospitals in investigated in Iran (Askarian et al., 2004). In this study, only 53.3% of hospitals used standardized packaging containers, and only 33% of the hospitals had some special logo in the storage location.
Form on-site observations, some problematic aspects in the storage practices are identified as follows: