ANALISIS SISTEM PENGELOLAAN SAMPAH MEDIS DI PUSKESMAS PERAWATAN DI KABUPATEN MERANGIN TAHUN 2016

Abstract

Care health center is one of the health care unit that organize the hospitalization services, which in its activities produce medical waste in solid form. In Merangin regency, there are 6 primary health centers  which also have  incinerator, but not in good condition. 4 other health centers do not have incinerator. The purpose of this research was to know the medical waste management system at medical care health centers in  Merangin regency 2016. the reseacred was started  with sorting, collcting, transferring, temporary storage and final disposal of medical waste.

The methodology of this research was qualitative approach with descriptive case study design. This study was conducted in 10  care health centers  of Merangin regency. The Informants in this study were   61 people, which is consist of the chief of environmental health department of Merangin, head of the care health center, environmental health officers, laboratory staff, the head of the nurse, nurses and cleaning service. The instrument of the study was human instrument, interview, check list, image recording devices and stationery. The Qualitative data analysis techniques was calculate by using data reduction technique, data presentation and conclusion.

The process of medical waste management in 10 care health centers in merangin regency basically have the same process, namely through the process of selecting between medical and non medical waste, collecting the wastes and transfering the waste into the incinerator. The final process of solid medical waste was the  burning process which was done manually, the incinetor was not included to be burned and the clinic did not make cooperation with the hospital in case to burn the medical waste.

the Medical waste management system at medical care health centers in the  Merangin regency was still not managed well as accordance  with Kepmenkes No 1428/MENKES/ SK/XII/2016