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Any waste that is generated from hospitals and healthcare facilities is classified as clinical waste. The composition of clinical waste can be heterogeneous including infectious waste, radioactive waste, hazardous waste, pharmaceuticals waste, and general waste. Clinical waste can also be known as healthcare waste, medical waste, or scheduled waste (DOE, 2009). Ministry of Health (MoH) Malaysia defines clinical waste which may consist wholly or partly of human or animal tissues, blood or other bodily fluids, excretions, drugs or other pharmaceutical products, swabs or dressings, syringes, needles or other sharp instruments, and waste which, unless rendered safe, may prove hazardous to any person coming into contact with waste.
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Agamuthu, P., Mehran, S.B., Jayanthi, B. (2022). Clinical Waste Management in Malaysia and COVID-19 Waste Management Case Study. In: Ghosh, S.K., Agamuthu, P. (eds) Health Care Waste Management and COVID 19 Pandemic. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9336-6_2
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