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Bogor City has 25 Puskesmas with each medical waste generation can be up around 100kg/month. The temporary storage activity requires proper treatment and management complying with regulation Ministry of Health No.56 (2015) and Ministry of Environmental and Forestry No.6 (2021). The study aims to analyze basic problem of medical waste temporary storage activity of Puskesmas in Bogor City. Qualitative approach with observation and depth-interview had been done with related parties. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is done to analyze most interested mitigation. Result shows that remaining from total population: 36% needs to provide proper medical waste temporary storage, 24% waste cold storage, 36% wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Main obstacles found includes limited land, procedural weaknesses, and internalization of other costs. AHP is done to overcome the weakness of limited land, with three alternatives (providing additional space in the current location; providing communal hazardous waste temporary storage; providing licensed offtaker). The scoring result sequentially 14.8%, 16.3%, and 68.9%. Basically medical waste management by Puskesmas in Bogor City is in continous improvement in order to comply with the regulations. More attention need to be put on WWTP to avoid pollution especially to groundwater quality which none attention had been made so far.
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