Architect Volker Bollig (left), here on a mission for Médicins Sans Frontières in Ethiopia in the autumn of 2009, is explaining how to handle hazardous medical waste in Addis Abeba Hospital Yekatit 12 to the cleaning-staff.
Previously the waste management area was improved by installing a sharp box reducer to avoid the transmission of deseases like Hepathites B or HIV through sharps.
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Written by Birgit Heitfeld on 9 Jan 2010
