PLANO DE GERENCIAMENTO DE RESÍDUOS HOSPITALARES: ANÁLISE DE UM HOSPITAL BRASILEIRO

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the Plan Management of Medical Waste of an hospital of high complexity, in the city of Ribeirão Preto – São Paulo, Brazil. This reseacrh is characterized as a case study and exploratory. The data collection was realised by document analysis of the Plan Management of Medical Waste and technical visit. This research verified that the Plan Management of Medical Waste not tackled all the stages of handling of medical waste as external collection, treatment and final disposal. The Plan Management of Medical Waste also not defined as the containers utilized to the internal and external transport of the medical waste should be identified. The Plan described the kind of treatment that was offered to each group of waste, however, not related the kind of final disposal offered to the medical waste. It is considered necessary a different view to the handling of the medical waste, that requires more oversight as way to promote the training and the capacity of the employees, ensuring a handling adequated these wastes. Index Terms - medical waste, public health, environmental health.