title: Solid waste disposal in district health facilities.
abstract: Hospital waste is not necessarily difficult to dispose of. In most cases it can be safely dumped in a properly designed waste pit. Waste management problems at district hospitals in developing countries are usually caused more by lack of information than by financial or technical difficulties.
authors.affiliation: Division of Health, Population and Nutrition, Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Eschborn, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Halbwachs
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D017744:Medical Waste Disposal / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012423:Rural Health
chemical_list: D017744:Medical Waste Disposal