Avaliação da qualidade da água consumida em um hospital público da cidade de Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

The present work has as main objective to know the quality of water being consumed by the population of the University Hospital Alcides Carneiro (HUAC) in the city of Campina Grande - PB, in order to know the distribution system of water property that hospital, order by monitoring sentinel indicators suggest the development and implementation of a maintenance plan for water quality, thereby attempting to maintain a distribution system to control by avoiding therefore possible spread of diseases related to water. The maintenance plan must meet the standards of potability and established by Ordinance No. 518 of March 25, 2004 the Ministry of Health and National Planning Guidance Sampling Surveillance in Environmental Health-related quality of drinking water. The results obtained during the seven months of analysis in the thirteen monitoring points showed the vulnerability of the supply system of the HUAC, due to low concentrations of free residual chlorine found in the distribution network and reservoirs for the accumulation and the predominance of species of combined chlorine residual . Other factors related to the maintenance of the building as a time of existence of pipes and reservoirs, seepage, leakage and lack of proper cleaning the tanks may also have contributed to the degradation of the quality of water consumed by the population of the hospital.