Importância do gerenciamento de resíduos de serviço de saúde (GRSS) na Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF)

Abstract

Managing healthcare waste (GRSS) became compulsory in institutions that generate waste health risk due to the great offered to humans and the environment. The family health strategy (ESF) is geared towards prevention, promotion and recovery of health and consists of a healthcare team that Act on behalf of the community by improving their quality of life. The choice of the theme is justified by the concern with the contaminated waste generated in the ESF with segregation and incorrect disposal and total team preparation in the management of this waste. The overall objective is to address the importance of waste Management of Health Service in family health Strategy. It is a descriptive exploratory study, carried out by means of reporting and bibliographic search experience where they were identified the health facilities of the ESF do the GRSS and has deployed the waste management plan of the health service (PGRSS) in their establishments. Among all activities performed in the ESF that generate contaminated waste are in dressings, vaccines, injections, collection of preventive and dental treatment. Observes that in any health institution has deployed PGRSS and GRSS is done improperly. The correct GRSS involves steps management, segregation, packaging, identification, collection and internal transport, handling, temporary storage, external storage, collection and external transport and final disposal. The PGRSS is based on scientific standards, regulatory and legal compliance, which aims to minimize waste production and to provide a secure routing, generated as a guiding document management steps that must be drawn up in accordance with the characteristics and volume of waste generated. Observes that the professionals have difficulties in implementing the waste management, many for lack of knowledge, other for unwillingness to accomplish it and others by the lack of available resources and inadequacies of the institution as to the standards, and mainly by the lack of PGRSS. What we can do is develop a new posture on the management of these wastes and collaborate with a significant decrease in the proportion of this waste by reducing the risk to health and the environment.