AVALIAÇÃO DO GERENCIAMENTO DAS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS PARA OS RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS DOS SERVIÇOS DE SAÚDE A PARTIR DA VISÃO DOS TRABALHADORES E GESTORES DE SAÚDE. RONDONÓPOLIS-MT

Abstract

The health services solid waste (RSSS) have high levels of contamination, not only harmful to human health, but harmful to the environment. For the reduction of problems caused by these kinds of wastes it s important to have an administration and implementation of programs for the management of the health services solid waste (PGRSSS). This program must be implemented and monitored in the institutions that produce solid wastes, with the committed participation of all employees, rescuing ethical values and environmental responsibility. The main purpose of this study was to identify public policy of the management to the treatment of the health services solid waste and the actions to put in practice in the city of Rondonópolis, MT. To reach the purpose, it was developed an exploratory descriptive study, with secondary and primary data. It was found that the healthcare professionals of the city of Rondonopolis, MT does not have access to the PGRSSS printed and neither the knowledge about the actions to be performed in order to make the management of the public policies effective. It was also found that the healthcare professionals are not trained to work properly to have health, safety and environmental protection. During this study was noted that among the steps of PGRSSS, the temporary storage is one of the most precarious problems and has no proper place for storage. Besides that, the collection is been made in a way that does not comply with the relevant legislation, a fact that also occurs in the transport, in which the box trucks, although they are licensed, the RSSS are incorrectly accommodated, violating the rules that require sealed containers. It was concluded that there are absence of implementation of public policy for the management of the RSSS directed to the final disposal of this solid wastes, as well, the control from the public agencies with respect to all the stage of the PGRSSS. These measures would require from the government to perform and execute with more responsibility actions to the protection of the public health and the environment.