Healthcare waste management in a Brazilian university public hospital

被引：18
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作者：
Santos, Elci de Souza [1 ]
dos Santos Goncalves, Karla Magna [1 ,2 ]
Gomes Mol, Marcos Paulo [3 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Fed Minas Gerais, EBSERH, HC, Unidade Gestao Residuos, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Minas Gerais, Dept Quim, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
[3] Fundacao Ezequiel Dias FUNED, Diretoria Pesquisa & Desenvolvimento, Rua Conde Pereira Carneiro 80, BR-30510010 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
来源：
WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH | 2019年 / 37卷 / 03期
关键词：
Solid waste; medical waste; environmental indicators; waste segregation; waste management; DENTAL SOLID-WASTE; MEDICAL WASTE; GENERATION; FACILITIES; QUANTITIES; COSTS; CITY;
D O I：
10.1177/0734242X18815949
中图分类号：
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号：
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要：
Some healthcare waste presents hazardousness characteristics and requires specific procedures to ensure the safety management. Waste segregation is an important action to control the risks of each type of waste. Healthcare waste indicators also may improve the waste management system. The aim of this article was to evaluate the healthcare waste management in a Brazilian university hospital, as well as the waste indicators, quantifying and qualifying the waste generation. Weighing of wastes occurred by sampling occurred sampling of seven consecutive days or daily, between 2011 and 2017. General wastes represent more than 55.6% of the total generated, followed by infectious, sharps and chemicals wastes, respectively, 39.1%, 2.9% and 2.4%. The generation rate in 2017 was 4.09kgbed(-1)day(-1), including all types of wastes. Non-dangerous wastes represented around 93.3%, including infectious wastes with low potential risks, while dangerous was represented by high infectious risk (1.4%), chemicals (2.4%) and sharps (2.9%). Healthcare waste indicators may favour the risk identification and improve the waste management system, in particular when involving hazardous wastes. Failures in healthcare waste segregation could represent, in addition to the health risks, unnecessary expenses.
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