Dosimetric relationship of nuclear medicine workers, public versus private

The objective of this work is to relate the accumulated effective dose of workers occupationally exposed (TOE's) in public versus private organizations, of two Nuclear Medicine services -Camera Gamma area- in Bolivia. Retrospective analysis of dosimetric history, sent by the Dosimetry Laboratory of the Bolivian Institute of Science and Nuclear Technology, provided by the Radiological Protection Officers of the Nuclear Medicine of Sucre (A) and the Center for Molecular Imaging of La Paz (B), from the years 2014 to 2016 they refer that: In group (A) of a total of 48 samples, 4.17 percent are considered recordable (less than 0.2 mSv are not reported) with a maximum accumulated value of 0.6 mSv, in relation to group (B) of 30 samples, 66.67 percent are recordable with a maximum accumulated of 12.5 mSv. Therefore, it is concluded that a higher estimate of the cumulative effective dose in the TOE's of the Private Institution in relation to that of the Institution Public, representing an increase of 2083.33 percent and corresponding to the personnel that carries out the activity of elution of radioactive material, preparation and administration of radiopharmaceutical. Cause attributable to use of radioactive material with higher energy (Mo99-Tc99m / I131) and / or activity (frequency of weekly / monthly reception).