Gestão dos resíduos provenientes de serviços de saúde no município de Belém-PA: entre os limites da teoria e prática

Abstract

In the search for a solution to the problems of solid waste in urban centers, and noting that one of the challenges currently facing municipal public managers, is related to the form of proper final disposal of solid waste generated by these, this research has as main objective , show the reality of health service waste management in the Municipality of Belém-Pa, giving special emphasis to the form of the appropriate final disposition and presentation of the quantification of health service waste generated. The central theme will present a discussion and analysis in relation to risk governance and the realization of urban development with democratic bases based on the theory of sustainable cities, as well as the relationship of the case study addressed, it will also present the issue of socio-environmental vulnerability perceived in the work of field, once it identified people who are in a state of social vulnerability and live in the vicinity of the undertakings that dispose of this type of waste, that address the issue of health service waste, the relationship between the scope of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially number 11, together with the implementation of the Metropolis Statute regarding the management of this specific type of waste solid, and still related to the dictates of the New Urban Agenda. The method applied is the case study and the implementation of the new urban agenda. The empirical method applied is the case study, given the revealing case and odd moment that Belenense society lives and that the study deals with, being, therefore, based on a qualitative approach, using non-participant observation, of an analytical-descriptive character and exploratory. It was also applied the technique of documentary research to survey normative materials, legal documents and non-confidential public documents produced during the process studied, in order to arrive at the presentation of reality and its particularities in the capital of Pará. For this, the semi-structured interviews technique was also used to collect information with key actors and the non- participant observation technique. Finally, it has a practical contribution to the study, a draft Resolution was produced considering the data collected in the identification of the diagnosis raised during the research, containing the collected contributions that will help the public authorities in the environmental management of these residues, and which will be forwarded to the Council State of Environment, to evaluate the possibility of being incorporated into the new local standard, as well as, a small informative guide about the residues of health services and their way of disposal in an appropriate place was also elaborated and which has the purpose of being distributed the population.