Desempenho ambiental dos Estabelecimentos de Saúde (ES) de Dourados-MS quanto ao gerenciamento de resíduos de serviço de saúde

Abstract

The Waste Health Service (RSS) although compose a small portion of the amount of waste generated by cities deserve greater attention due to its features dangerousness. These wastes can carry disease for those that manipulates and when disposed of improperly, can contaminate the soil, ground water and surface water. According to research conducted by the IBGE (2008), it recorded that 4,469 cities in Brazil have collected and / or receipts of solid waste health service septic. Of this total, 1,856 show no processing of these wastes. These values indicate that there is still a great lack of concern to the RSS. The implementation of waste management programs can help control these wastes, reducing the risk of environmental contamination and damage to health. Therefore, it is necessary to establish performance measures that accompanied the ES guide in creating strategies to achieve sustainability. In this sense, Performance Measurement for Environmental Health Establishments (MDAES) allow the verification of the environmental performance of the ES, using as a basis the patterns set by environmental agencies in order to translate the reality of establishments as environmental management, particularly for the management of RSS. Thus, the research was done in five (05) ES in the city of Dourados, MS, characterized as General Hospital, attending patients from public and private. Was used as the research instrument MDAES questionnaires containing 63 questions, establishing the environmental performance of ES, classifying them in the levels of the metric. The environmental performance presented by ES were located among the highest levels of MDAES, an environmental performance at levels of 700 600 will MDAES.