Safe health-care waste management is fundamental for the provision of quality, people-centred care, protecting patient and staff safety and safeguarding the environment. As part of broader water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and infection prevention and control (IPC) efforts, safe management of health-care waste reduces health-care-related infections, increases trust and uptake of services, increases efficiency and decreases cost of service delivery. In line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 3 on health, SDG 6 on safely managed water and sanitation and SDG 12 on sustainable consumption and production, the Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities: Global action plan aims to ensure that all health-care facilities have basic WASH services by 2030 (WHO & UNICEF, 2015a). This includes safe healthcare waste management involving segregation, collection, transportation,
treatment and waste disposal.
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