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Medical laboratory waste generation rate, management practices and associated factors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2021-08-24

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<h4>Background</h4> Biomedical wastes (BMW) generated from medical laboratories are hazardous and can be deleterious to humans and the environment. Highly infectious types of biomedical wastes are commonly generated at an unacceptably high rate from health laboratories of developing countries with a poor management system like Ethiopia. This study was aimed to evaluate the generation rate of biomedical wastes, man...

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Literature Corpus work: 21035ac7-2698-5385-bf49-972a58cbebcc
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.17.21262112

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