December 2000
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The main aspects that constitute a manual for the management of hazardous waste from hospitals, fundamentally the infectious ones, developed for the first time in the country at the National Institute of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology are presented in order to contribute to the training of the staff that intervenges in any of the stages of waste management and so that this manual direct and perform all the activities in an adequate way as a basis to protect their health and develop their activity with more efficiency. Different international publications were adopted as references for the preparation of the manual and it presents two main aspects, the different stages in the implementation of an organized system of hazardous hospital waste management and the risks that for health and environment are associated with the exposure to them.