Análisis del proceso de eliminación de desechos farmacéuticos de un Hospital Básico de segundo nivel de atención del Ministerio de Salud Pública.

Abstract

Institutions that provide public and private health services generate sanitary waste on a daily basis, which requires a protocol for its disposal in order to care for workers, users and the environment; The increase of various pathologies influences so that the consumption of medicines increases, for which it is essential to have action plans for the collection, transport and storage of these wastes based on current regulations. The objective of the present investigation was to analyze the process of elimination of pharmaceutical waste from a basic hospital of II level of care of the Ministry of Public Health. The methodology used was non-experimental, participatory observational, descriptive, analytical and a mixed approach, the tool was the survey that was applied to 43 health workers. It was concluded that the hospital has a waste plan, committee and protocols, but they are not socialized to all the staff, that the training has not been carried out based on regulations, a classification of pharmaceutical waste is not carried out and no provides suitable PPE for collection and transportation work. The proposal is based on five components where the greatest weaknesses were identified: training, protective clothing, accident prevention, pharmaceutical waste management process, control and evaluation, and an alternative to expand the final waste storage infrastructure is presented.