The main focus of this research intend to study the management of solid residues of hospitals in Boa Vista and the ambient impacts derivate from the inappropriate final discarding. The research was developed in Nossa Senhora de Nazaré Infantile Maternal Hospital, in Santo Antonio Child Hospital of Boa Vista and in the General Hospital of Roraima, Rubens de Sousa Bento. In these institutions, the information about the management and phases of the residues production were collected through interviews and questionnaires, applied with employees of the hospitals and cleaners of the companies that work in the hospital., At the final disposal area of residues in the sanitary deposit, the information were collected through questionnaires and interviews with the rubbish collectors, with the sanitary deposit manager and with the Town Hall fiscal who followed our search in this local. For the microbiological analyses of the water it was used in accordance with technique of the most probable number with five dilutions. The results showed that in Nossa Senhora de Nazaré Infantile Maternal Hospital and Santo Antonio Child Hospital, the Management Program of Solid Residues of Health Service (PGRSS) doesn’t attend to the legal requirement in the production phases of residues while in the General Hospital of Roraima Rubens de Souza Bento the program is still in the adaptation phases to the legal requirements of the competent organizations. It was verified ground degradation, aggression to the ciliar wood around the sanitary deposit and elevated density of term tolerant coli forms in the collected water sample in the affluent and in the Auai Grande stream, what suggests water of type 3, considered inappropriate to bathing and drinking.
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