“Manejo de los residuos hospitalarios y las enfermedades infectocontagiosas del personal que labora en áreas críticas del hospital del IESS Guayaquil “Dr. Teodoro Maldonado Carbo”

The research work is about the management of hospital waste and its relationship with infectious and contagious diseases, which is exposed to the staff of the hospital of the IESS of Guayaquil, Dr. Teodoro Maldonado Carbo; where is has demonstrated that there are consequences, not only for the healt...

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Main Author: Vera Solórzano, Venus (author)
Other Authors: Sancán Baque, Mercedes (author)
Format: masterThesis
Language:spa
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://dspace.utb.edu.ec/handle/49000/1721
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Summary:The research work is about the management of hospital waste and its relationship with infectious and contagious diseases, which is exposed to the staff of the hospital of the IESS of Guayaquil, Dr. Teodoro Maldonado Carbo; where is has demonstrated that there are consequences, not only for the health of the human resource that works, but also damages to the environment, by the improper handling of such waste; What is considered to apply biosafety standards, in order to minimize the amount of waste generated by the workers of health, cleaning, administration and users who receive care in the institution, to reduce the negative effects that affect the environment and societies and contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of users treated in hospital study;its objective is to implement a program of management of hospital waste in areas of the center of hemodialysis and the clinical laboratory, in order to prevent infectious or contagious diseases in the personnel that work. The methodology used was field, because that is performed in the areas of clinical laboratory and hemodialysis, allowing you to analyze and compare the procedures that applied in each one of them; It could also expand and deduce the different criteria with respect to the management of hospital waste.According to the results of the surveys and direct observation, hemodialysis, and laboratory areas comply partially with biosafety standards established by the relevant bodies; the hospital has equipment for the handling of waste, but health and cleaning staff unknown how to manipulate them, which does not guarantee the prevention of the infectious or contagious diseases; control internal and external processes and procedures to properly remove the hospital waste generated by the institution, are very scarce, not allowing to assess the fulfillment of the indicators for the areas of laboratory and hemodialysis.