Os impactos da pandemia por COVID-19 na Coleta Seletiva Solidária e para a instituição hospitalar de média e alta complexidade

Abstract

The challenge experienced by science, public and health authorities is permeated by uncertainties about the virus, given the potential for contagion and the resulting burden on health systems. These should still adhere to a peculiarity of the service, which is the production of waste from health services. This study seeks to report the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic at CSS and at the institution from March to May 2020. This is a study descriptive, with a qualitative approach subsidized by an experience report from the experience of the authors. To the data collection used the participant observation technique and the recording of observations and impressions occurred in a field diary. The study points out that the main impacts of the pandemic on Solidarity Selective Collection and for institution were from the classification of disposable materials for waste of health services, reduction of income for recyclable collectors since recyclables could not be sent to cooperatives. it is added the fact that, as recycling is not an essential service, they cannot carry out activities. to the institution demanded, among other things, the allocation of human and financial resources from management to the final destination of the disposable waste that, as a result of the pandemic, is considered waste from health services. It concludes then that the pandemic has required strategic management to allocate and manage resources and has demonstrated inequalities social and economic by which recyclable waste pickers are directly exposed.