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Title
  • en Greening Health Infrastructure: Rapid Assessment of Policies and Practices on Health Care Waste Management in Ethiopia and Kenya
Creator
    • en Dickella Gamaralalage, Premakumara Jagath ja ガマラララゲ, プレマクマラ ジャガット ディキャラ
    • en Makoto Tsukiji
    • en Hayashi, Miho ja 林, 美穂
    • en Patrick Mwesigye
    • en Norah Mugita
    • en Sylvia Munuhe
    • en Evans Kituyi
    • en Lelissa Daba
    • en Chengchen Qian
    • en Adebiyi Odegbile
    • en Joseph Price
Contributor
    • Other en Aoki, Masato ja 青木, 正人
Subject
  • Other Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy
  • Other Low-Carbon Societies
Description
  • Abstract en The sound management of Health Care Waste (HCW) has been receiving increasing global attention, now even more so given the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of COVID-19 throughout Africa has significantly influenced the already overburdened Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) systems in many countries. A lack of infrastructure, inadequate budgets and capacity gaps make it difficult to achieve environmentally sound HCWM, which underscores the urgency of realising sustainable and inclusive HCWM systems and infrastructure in African countries, in order to improve resilience to health emergencies such as COVID-19 and mitigate impacts on development, the environment and society. This rapid assessment of HCWM in Ethiopia and Kenya, thus aims to identify gaps and propose strategic recommendations for a holistic approach to improving the sustainability of HCWM systems.Itexamines other policies and practices such as greenprocurement (environmentally preferable purchasing),green buildings (energy saving renewable energysupply), green facility management (environmentalmanagement system) in the broader context of greenhealth infrastructure in Africa. The scope of this report is thus focused on Health Care Waste (HCW) generatedfrom Health Care Facilities (HCFs) and sustainable HCWMsystems using the waste-management hierarchy, whichis largely based on the concept of the 3Rs, namelyreduce, reuse and recycle, and broadly relates to thesustainable use of resources. The report also considersbroader sustainable infrastructure, and the use of locallyacceptable best available technologies (BAT) and bestenvironment practices (BEP), which in turn are expectedto help minimize exposure to health risk and thus helppromote public health and well-being and improve theecosystem. Through undertaking this rapid assessment,consisting of (i) secondary data collection (literaturereview) and (ii) semi-structured interviews based on aquestionnaire, strategic directions andrecommendations were identified to improve HCWM inEthiopia and Kenya, with connections to the wider region.
Publisher UNEP Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Date
    Issued2021-12
Language
  • eng
Resource Type policy report
Identifier URI https://www.iges.or.jp/en/pub/greening-health-infrastructure-rapid-assessment-policies-and-practices-health-care-waste
Geolocation
    • 名称Africa
Journal
  • Page Startnot provided ページ数66
File
Oaidate 2022-10-23