"It is unbearable to breathe here": air quality, open incineration, and misinformation in Blantyre, Malawi

• Main Authors: Elizabeth Tilley (Author), Hope Chilunga (Author), Jonathan Kwangulero (Author), Lars Schöbitz (Author), Saloni Vijay (Author), Heiko Heilgendorff (Author), Marc Kalina (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Blantyre, Malawi's Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), or Queen's, as it's known locally, is the country's largest public hospital. However, Queen's is not served by regular municipal waste collection. Rather, most hospital waste (infectious and non-infectious) is gathe...