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A study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: General Hospital in District of Perak) / Nur Shafiqa Anuwa and Nurulanis Ahmad@Mohamed

Clinical Waste Management (CWM) became a debate in worldwide especially in developed countries as well as low-income countries due to the rapid urbanization and population growth. Malaysia is no exception from facing the issues as the amount of clinical waste continues increasing by 31% with 22 thou...

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Main Authors: Anuwa, Nur Shafiqa, Ahmad@Mohamed, Nurulanis
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Hazardous substances and their disposal
Environmental protection
Special types of environment. Including soil pollution, air pollution, noise pollution
Malaysia
Industrial and factory sanitation
Industrial and factory wastes
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/51881/1/51881.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/51881/
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spelling my.uitm.ir.518812021-10-11T03:47:28Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/51881/ A study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: General Hospital in District of Perak) / Nur Shafiqa Anuwa and Nurulanis Ahmad@Mohamed Anuwa, Nur Shafiqa Ahmad@Mohamed, Nurulanis Hazardous substances and their disposal Environmental protection Special types of environment. Including soil pollution, air pollution, noise pollution Malaysia Industrial and factory sanitation Industrial and factory wastes Clinical Waste Management (CWM) became a debate in worldwide especially in developed countries as well as low-income countries due to the rapid urbanization and population growth. Malaysia is no exception from facing the issues as the amount of clinical waste continues increasing by 31% with 22 thousand tons in 2014 and the following years. This country ranked the second highest country in Asia that generates the most of clinical waste as the effect of not uniform in managing the waste. Consequently, unmanageable clinical waste is hazardous towards human health and environmental due to the contagious nature of waste that has the potential to produce disease through the dissemination of pathogens. Therefore, the objectives of this paper are to identify and determine the issues arise of clinical waste management at general hospitals in districts of Perak. The primary data is collected by using questionnaire which is the result of the questionnaire will be evaluate with SPSS and interview to verify the result. The findings resulted in lack of awareness and knowledge of the management employees the main issues faced by general hospital in district of Perak followed by the issues on the policies of CWM. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/51881/1/51881.pdf ID51881 Anuwa, Nur Shafiqa and Ahmad@Mohamed, Nurulanis (2019) A study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: General Hospital in District of Perak) / Nur Shafiqa Anuwa and Nurulanis Ahmad@Mohamed. In: 4th Undergraduate Seminar on Built Environment and Technology 2019, 12th June 2019, Universiti Teknologi Mara Perak Branch.
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topic Hazardous substances and their disposal
Environmental protection
Special types of environment. Including soil pollution, air pollution, noise pollution
Malaysia
Industrial and factory sanitation
Industrial and factory wastes
spellingShingle Hazardous substances and their disposal
Environmental protection
Special types of environment. Including soil pollution, air pollution, noise pollution
Malaysia
Industrial and factory sanitation
Industrial and factory wastes
Anuwa, Nur Shafiqa
Ahmad@Mohamed, Nurulanis
A study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: General Hospital in District of Perak) / Nur Shafiqa Anuwa and Nurulanis Ahmad@Mohamed
description Clinical Waste Management (CWM) became a debate in worldwide especially in developed countries as well as low-income countries due to the rapid urbanization and population growth. Malaysia is no exception from facing the issues as the amount of clinical waste continues increasing by 31% with 22 thousand tons in 2014 and the following years. This country ranked the second highest country in Asia that generates the most of clinical waste as the effect of not uniform in managing the waste. Consequently, unmanageable clinical waste is hazardous towards human health and environmental due to the contagious nature of waste that has the potential to produce disease through the dissemination of pathogens. Therefore, the objectives of this paper are to identify and determine the issues arise of clinical waste management at general hospitals in districts of Perak. The primary data is collected by using questionnaire which is the result of the questionnaire will be evaluate with SPSS and interview to verify the result. The findings resulted in lack of awareness and knowledge of the management employees the main issues faced by general hospital in district of Perak followed by the issues on the policies of CWM.
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author Anuwa, Nur Shafiqa
Ahmad@Mohamed, Nurulanis
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Ahmad@Mohamed, Nurulanis
author_sort Anuwa, Nur Shafiqa
title A study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: General Hospital in District of Perak) / Nur Shafiqa Anuwa and Nurulanis Ahmad@Mohamed
title_short A study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: General Hospital in District of Perak) / Nur Shafiqa Anuwa and Nurulanis Ahmad@Mohamed
title_full A study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: General Hospital in District of Perak) / Nur Shafiqa Anuwa and Nurulanis Ahmad@Mohamed
title_fullStr A study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: General Hospital in District of Perak) / Nur Shafiqa Anuwa and Nurulanis Ahmad@Mohamed
title_full_unstemmed A study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: General Hospital in District of Perak) / Nur Shafiqa Anuwa and Nurulanis Ahmad@Mohamed
title_sort study on the issues of clinical waste management (case study: general hospital in district of perak) / nur shafiqa anuwa and nurulanis ahmad@mohamed
publishDate 2019
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/51881/1/51881.pdf
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