Management of waste of health services: study in two hospitals of microrregião do bico do Papagaio - Tocantins, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Management of waste of health services: study in two hospitals of microrregião do bico do Papagaio - Tocantins, Brazil
Received 11th May, 2018; Received in revised form 16th June, 2018; Accepted 02nd July, 2018; Published online 30th August, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Marcela de Oliveira Feitosa, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Plan of Waste Management of Health Services (PGRSS) can minimize the risks of work accidents and provide greater security to the hospital community, the public and the environment. Due to its characteristics, the waste of health services deserves special mention as its classification, segregation, packaging, transport, collection, storage and final arrangement. The present study aimed to describe the Waste Management of Health Services (RSS) at two reference hospitals in Bico do Papagaio micro-region, Tocantins, in order to evaluate the adequacy of them to Resolution RDC 306/2004 of the Sanitary Surveillance National Agency (ANVISA). Therefore, to achieve the proposed objective, a questionnaire was applied in the two hospitals to identify how waste management is carried out, highlighting the importance of PGRSS for better management of RSS, emphasize the importance of biosecurity measures on the use of personal protection equipment (PPE), employee training and notification of occupational accidents related to the handling of RSS. Given the results, we found some negative aspects related to the management of RSS in the studied hospitals because they own the PGRSS, and not normally perform it, which is a failure the noncompliance with the relevant legislation. Moreover, one of them has not been approved by relevant municipal and state agency, and none of them is supported by the Secretaries of Administration, Environment and Health, which would be essential as the inappropriate management of RSS can be harmful to the environment, public health and especially to those involved in the handling of these wastes. Therefore, it is concluded that the practice adopted by the two studied health facilities is not adequate and consequently does not meet the relevant resolution to this issue, because the studied health facilities had non-conformities before the established standards by CONAMA 358/2005 and RDC 306/2004 of ANVISA resolutions.
