Evaluación del Plan para la Gestión Integral de los Residuos generados en la Atención en Salud y otras Actividades (PGIRASA), en el área de observación de la Empresa Social del Estado, Hospital San José del Municipio De Tierralta – Córdoba.

Abstract

Introduction: Health care entities generate a wide variety of wastes that, due to their dangerous characteristics, represent a series of potential risks to human and environmental health, for which they require special handling, treatment and final disposal. Objective: To evaluate the Plan for the Comprehensive Management of Waste generated in health care in the observation area of the State Social Enterprise, San José Hospital in the municipality of Tierralta-Córdoba. Materials and methods: Descriptive, non-experimental cross-sectional research. A survey was applied to 39 officials from the observation area on perception, knowledge and practices in the management of hospital waste. A checklist was applied to evaluate the activities and conditions related to the management of hospital waste. Results: Deficiencies were found in the infrastructure for waste storage, in human resources, in the equipment (containers and personal protection elements) and in technical-administrative activities. The surveyed officials demonstrated not complying with the knowledge and practices necessary for the correct management of hospital waste. Conclusions: Failures were found in terms of compliance with the Manual in the processes of generation, management and final disposal of waste. The knowledge of the surveyed personnel can be categorized as low or deficient due to the inaccuracy when answering the survey since it was possible to identify an inconsistency between the knowledge they claim to have and the correct answer. Relevant recommendations were generated in order to guarantee the sanitary security of the environment, officials of the entity and the general public.