Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Medical wastes hazards among health cleaners at Bahari and Sharq Al-neel Hospitals.

In the past few years , public concern over the disposal of medical waste has markedly increased .The lack of policies, strategies and enforcement of legislation for handling and disposing of health care waste (HCW) in many developing countries has resulted in poor management of such waste. in 2000, WHO estimated worldwide that injections with contaminated syringes caused 21 million hepatitis B virus infections , two million hepatitis C virus infections and 260 000 HIV infections. In Sudan, according to the surveys and field visits conducted in both public &private health sector, in all the fifteen northern states, the health care delivery hasn’t adopted health care waste management system(1)