Adverse Health and Environmental Impacts of Poor Infrastructure Management in Local Market Facilities

Ali Raza Khoso,Ammara Kaynat,Jam Shahzaib Khan,Mazhar Abbas,Rizwan Ullah Faiz

doi:10.17485/ijst/2019/v12i28/145494

Abstract

Objectives: This study aims to suggest infrastructure management facilities for a well-planned slaughterhouse, furthermore, proposed a systematic slaughterhouse infrastructure with modernized facilities including orientation, circulation areas, waste disposal and effluent disposal methods. Methods/Analysis: The stratified research sample was taken in the form of focused group discussions and interviews. The qualitative data thus gathered from environmentalist, civil engineers, construction managers, architects and planners to workout facility management plan for slaughterhouse. Findings: The results outlined that poor slaughterhouse infrastructure planning and management poses great threat to the human health and society by disseminating several diseases. Thereof, study concluded that the infrastructure planning can play positive and effective role to mitigate the concerned issues. Novelty/Improvement: None of the work has focused on infrastructure planning to resolve the health and environmental issues arising from the slaughterhouse’s wastages. This research is novel contribution in recommending the infrastructure planning solutions. Keywords: Health and Environment, Hyderabad, Infrastructure, Slaughter House Waste (SHW)

Highlights

Local business markets strengthen socio-economic development of the country that sustains local market facilities and opts significant assistance through infrastructure management
Several studies argued that the human health and environment negatively affected due to the ill infrastructure planning of the structures where animals are slaughtered
The study found that the slaughterhouses pose great threat to the human health and to the society by propagating several diseases via. contaminating the land, air and water

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Introduction

Local business markets strengthen socio-economic development of the country that sustains local market facilities and opts significant assistance through infrastructure management. Amongst other local business markets the meat facilities are one of the major sources of socio-economic development. It’s expanding consumption per capita and export demand makes the inevitable slaughterhouse infrastructure. They played vigorous part in meeting the meat demand, through livestock it contributes substantially and directly to human health.[1] A better physical and psychological development is connected with this market as meat based products can reduce nutritional deficiency[2]. The diet deficiency in children is very common likewise other under-nourished people the small amount of meat product is important for physical and psychological health

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