Guidance

Safe management of wastes from health-care activities: a summary

This document highlights the key aspects of safe health-care waste management in order to guide policy-makers, practitioners and facility managers to improve such services in health-care facilities. It is based on the comprehensive and detailed WHO handbook Safe management of wastes from health-care activities (WHO, 2014), and also takes into consideration relevant World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions, other UN documents and emerging global and national

developments on WASH and IPC.

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2017

Type

Guidance

Categories

  • Supply chain & logistics

Tags

  • Waste management

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