Analysis of cognizance and practices of biomedical waste management principle rules among health professional workers in a teaching hospital with special emphasis on COVID-19 pandemic: A critical appraisal on the current state and way forward.

Background: Hospital-generated waste materials commonly labeled as "Biomedical waste" (BMW) is a kind of remnant that includes infectious and non-infectious materials and their appropriate disposals are controlled as per the guidelines of Biomedical Waste Management (BMWM) Amendment Rules, 2018, Government of India. Periodic assessment on BMWM among healthcare workers (HCWs) is mandated to ensure quality assurance, which may be helpful during pandemic times.

Materials And Methods: The study was conducted with ethical clearance by using a validated questionnaire (using Cronbach's α) covering knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) derived based on recent BMWM 2018 guidelines.

Alcohol problems in a general hospital--a prevalence study.

The prevalence of problem drinking among medical and surgical in-patients in a general hospital was studied using the CAGE questionnaire. Almost a quarter (23.3%) of the in-patients had associated drinking problems which were more among medical than surgical in-patients.