IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review

Neetima Batra ¹, Beenu Sehgal ², Manju Mehta ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science, GGSSS Kaimri, Hisar, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Family Resource Management, I C College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene are some of the most basic needs for human health and survival. Specially pure drinking water is of utmost importance among sanitation and hygiene concepts, keeping in view the study is planned to take a overall view of drinking water availability in urban area and performance of various water filters available in market. Water samples fromMunicipal water works, Tubewells and Handpump were tested. Five types of filters i.e Membrane filter, Candle filter, UV-rays+candle filters, Chemical treatment filters and three steps filter were selected for bacteriological analysis of water. Contaminated unfiltered water samples were taken purposively for the testing.After filtration it was found that UV rays+candle filter(F1) and three Steps filter (F2) were best in terms of removing impurities in terms of coliform count, faecal coliform count and viable count present in all three sources of water. F3 filter (chemical filters) had removed all the impurities present in unfiltered handpump water and reduced the impurities approximately ten times from other two sources of filter i.e. water from waterworks and tubewell. F4 filter (candle filter) and F5 (membrane filter), ranked III and IV respectively because these filters were found to remove the above mentioned impurities to some extent. It was also found from the available results that F3, F4 and F 5 filters were proved to be much more effective when the bacterial counts were less in unfiltered water taken from the all three sources. Thus, it can be concluded that F1 and F2 filters are best out of five filters tested in terms of performance evaluation and are, therefore, recommended for use by the consumers.

Keywords

Filters, UV Rays+Candle Filter, Coliform, E.coli, Faecal Coliform, Membrane Filter.

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Twinkle ¹, Manju Mehta ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Family Resource Management, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Biomedical waste (BMW) is any waste produced during the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human or animal research activities pertaining to the production or testing of biological or health camps. It follows the cradleto-grave approach which is characterization, quantification, segregation, storage, transport and treatment of Biomedical Waste. The biomedical waste handling workers of the hospitals bear the responsibility of managing the waste generated in each department of the hospitals. So, a sample of all the workers was selected from each hospital, i.e., comprising of a total of 270 respondents from both the districts, i.e., Rohtak and Hisar (3 hospitals from each district). All the waste handling workers in selected hospitals segregated the chemical waste and discarded medicines and cytotoxic drugs into black bags. Human waste and microbiology and biotechnology wastes were segregated into yellow bags. Liquid waste is segregated into the drains, sharp waste into the blue bags while soiled and solid waste is segregated into red bags in all the hospitals of Rohtak and Hisar districts. Majority of wastehandling workers segregated BW into the right color-coded containers. Thus, the respondents from the hospitals were having good knowledge about the segregation practices. Thus, it can be said that the majority of wastehandling workers were adopting good practices to manage BW in the hospitals. This may be due to the awareness and strictness of hospital administration to comply with the legislation laid by the government.

Keywords

biomedical, waste, segregation, hospitals, workers

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Rupal Hooda ¹, Sudesh Gandhi ¹, Manju Mehta ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Family Resource Management, COHS, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Aging is a vital process that makes individual life, family structure and society different. Domestic accidents that old people might be exposed to could be prevented by family directions and physical changes in the space of a home. Astudy was conducted on 100 elderly of Hisar city to report the major accidents faced by them. Results revealed that almost all the respondents (99.0%) belonged to the general caste except one percent from schedule caste. 73.0 percent of elderly were living in two-story house whereas 27.0 percent elderly were living in single storey house. Most of the elderly people i.e. 45.0 percent of them had choking accident while eating or drinking followed by 43.0 percent who had cuts from knife while grating the vegetables.

Keywords

accident, elderly, ageing, Hisar

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