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Sustainable Management for Carbon Footprint Reduction in Health Care as Shefaa Al-Orman Hospital, Luxor, Egypt

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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Environmental pollution

Abstract

Climate change confronts the health care sector with a dual challenge. Carbon footprint is defined as the total greenhouse gases resulting from industrial, service, or personal emissions, and its measurement is to reduce the negative effects of those emissions. Hospitals account for 3% of US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with 54% derived from supply chain goods and services. Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are responsible for the effects related to climate change, is one of the biggest challenges facing our society. Reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare requires direct action to reduce waste and energy use, but also requires radical reform of care pathways so that the only patients who come to or stay in hospital are people whose healthcare cannot safely be delivered closer to home. Our goal in this study is to assess the carbon footprint of Shefaa Al-Orman Hospital (SOH). This study is based on evaluating the emissions from the hospital's main energy sources (electricity, diesel, LPG, waste-water system, and fugitive emissions).

DOI

10.21608/auber.2023.188371.1039

Keywords

Carbon footprint, Shefaa Al-Orman, Egypt

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Shahata

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Environmental Affairs, Assiut University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University

Email

mohamedshahata67@hotmail.com

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First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Abdelsttar

Affiliation

Shefaa Al-Orman hospital. Luxor, Egypt. https://shefaorman.org

Email

mahmoud.amohamed@shefaorman.org

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First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Beshary

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Shefaa Al-Orman hospital. Luxor, Egypt. https://shefaorman.org

Email

mostafa_beshary@yahoo.com

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Sayed

MiddleName

K.

Affiliation

Shefaa Al-Orman hospital. Luxor, Egypt. https://shefaorman.org

Email

ahmed.karim@shefaorman.org

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

H.

Affiliation

Shefaa Al-Orman hospital. Luxor, Egypt. https://shefaorman.org

Email

mohamedhussien1993@gmail.com

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Volume

26.1

Article Issue

1

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41175

Issue Date

2023-03-01

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2023-01-19

Publish Date

2023-03-01

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1

Page End

13

Print ISSN

1110-6107

Online ISSN

2735-3559

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1,354

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Publication Title

Assiut University Bulletin for Environmental Researches

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https://auber.journals.ekb.eg/

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Sustainable Management for Carbon Footprint Reduction in Health Care as Shefaa Al-Orman Hospital, Luxor, Egypt

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26 Dec 2024