Características do gerenciamento dos resíduos sólidos dos serviços de saúde em Curitiba e análise das implicações socioambientais decorrentes dos métodos de tratamento e destino final

Abstract

This paper focuses the integrated management's characteristics of solid bio-medical waste residues developed by the government and health companies from Curitiba during 1989 till 2001, and it analyzes social and environmental problems that the steps relating to handling, treatment and final disposal of infected residues can cause to the ambient and public health. After the period analyzed, the results shows just 862 health companies from Curitiba were registered at "Lixo que não é lixo hospitalar" a local program of selective waste collect. This made clear the necessity of growing for this service to register all health companies that produce infecting residues in the city. Besides, this paper points out the importance of periodic verifications for the sanitary landfill's conditions (final disposal's method for infecting residues) to indicate the real conditions of the physical parts present on this area, and avoid the malign effects resulting from the pathogenic residues' decomposition on the environment and to population's life quality.