Avaliação do gerenciamento dos resíduos sólidos de serviços de saúde no ESF IV em Caçapava do Sul – RS

Abstract

The health solid waste - RSS can cause serious damage to the environment when mismanaged such as contamination of water, soil, animals and people. This work has the objective of evaluating the management of the health solid waste - RSS in the ESF IV Henriques Neighborhood located in the county of Caçapava do Sul – RS. The conformities and nonconformities in relation to the two main current laws, the RDC ANVISA nº 306/04 and the CONAMA 358/05 are analyzed. The workis organized in two stages, before and after the environmental education project. The evaluations were carried out by the application of two questionnaires and the monitoring of the implanted system was done through a checklist the collected residues. The results were very satisfactory, forthe nine items evaluated regarding management stages with health solid waste - RSS in the first phase of the work we had four discontinuities or 44, 4%. And for the second phase, after the environmental education project, we had only two disconformities or 22.2%. Based on the results obtained it can be concluded that the lack of information harms a good health solid waste - RSS management system, and the implementation of an environmental education project would be the most effective solution. Other problem detected during this research is the lack of incentives of the public administrators and this is one of the main causes that not be able to implement all the requirements of legislation. After the implementation of the environmental education project, it was notable the positive change in the attitude of the group of employees of the ESF IV Henriques Neighborhood, demonstrating motivation and awareness of the importance of the work they develop within the community. This aspect will certainly result in the formulation of a PGRSS and the and to improve the quality of population service to the population covered by the ESF.