Manejo de resíduos sólidos dos serviços de saúde: estudo de caso de um hospital privado de Fortaleza/CE

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to perform a diagnosis of the situation and present a proposal to work in a more sustainable way the management of health service waste from a private hospital located in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. The bibliographic research was based on the hospital's waste management, seeking to understand its effectiveness and applicability of the proposal. Thus, the need for a good management of hazardous waste using the autoclave system and its feasibility in a ten-year horizon was presented, in order to have a safer and sustainable management. In the current scenario, all the models are viable, but it is necessary to filter the best equipment according to the hospital's definitions. For the ten-year horizon, all the models are also economically viable, but there are more attractive models within the hospital's reality. Added to these results, to propose the use of high calorific value recyclables to be used as Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) after they leave the autoclave.