Healthcare waste management in selected government and private hospitals in Southeast Nigeria
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2221-1691
DOI: 10.1016/j.apjtb.2015.09.019