Estimating the carbon emissions from a resource-limited surgical suite in Papua New Guinea: The climate change potential.
Carbon emissions
Climate change
Papua new guinea
Surgical Suite
Western pacific
Journal
Dialogues in health
ISSN: 2772-6533
Titre abrégé: Dialogues Health
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9918506184906676
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
09
08
2022
revised:
30
01
2023
accepted:
31
01
2023
medline:
4
2
2023
pubmed:
4
2
2023
entrez:
22
3
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The upscale of surgical service delivery in low to middle income countries will increase health sector greenhouse gas emissions globally. Understanding surgical greenhouse gas emissions from surgical suite activities can direct decarbonization strategies and achieve local, and global climate change objectives. A prospective surgical suite carbon foot print study was conducted at the Alotau Provincial Hospital from the 28 The total carbon emission for the surgical suite in APH over the study period was 2,665.8 kgCO If no action is taken, carbon emissions in the western pacific region will continue to increase from surgical suites. Therefore, proactive efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must be prioritized.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38515480
doi: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100108
pii: S2772-6533(23)00012-6
pmc: PMC10953991
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100108Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
All authors hereby declare that there are no conflict of interests.