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Who oversees Uganda’s medical waste disposal?

Dr Nabaasa notes that Uganda lacks a law specifically addressing healthcare waste.

Bottles, syringes, needle tips and other sharps dumped along a footpath that cut through a banana plantation in Mpiringisa-Maya, Wakiso district.
By: Jackson Sewanyana, Journalists @New Vision


KAMPALA - In Uganda’s hospitals and clinics, the rhythm of care is constant; patients arrive, treatments are given, lives are saved. Yet behind this daily cycle

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