Desafios no manejo dos resíduos sólidos de saúde recicláveis do Hospital de Clínicas de Uberlândia

Abstract

Solid waste from recycable health services is of interest to professionals in different areas due to the repercussions of these wastes on the environment, health and society. This has led the public power to elaborate legislation that disposes on this category of waste and regulates and encourages the creation of the plan for the management of health services' waste. However, these laws alone do not guarantee that professionals and institutions carry out the proper management of this waste, and it is necessary to supervise, study, research and invest so that the entire process of handling these wastes is optimized and ecologically efficient. Thus, this paper proposes to diagnose the challenges encountered in the management of solid recyclable health waste at Hospital de Clínicas de Uberlândia. For this work circumstances, data and information on the management difficulties of these recyclable health service residues were verified in front of a bibliographical research and direct observation in the field of study. It is possible to conclude that several factors contribute to the development of a specific management for this waste, since they confer great economic, social and environmental value. Although it is a documented production on the management of recyclable hospital waste, this work does not exhaust the subject and above all stimulates future studies and researches to face these challenges in order to propose solutions for the management' s challenges of recyclable health waste in the HCUUFU.