Associate Professor Angel Kunchev on the study for COVID-19 in Plovdiv: The methodology is very detailed and complex – Society

The first meeting of the working group for the survey of national representatives in Plovdiv for COVID-19 was held at the District Administration.

The stages of conducting the only country-representative survey for COVID-19 were determined during the first meeting of the study working group.

The District Administration meeting was attended by District Governor Dani Kanazireva, Associate Chief Health Inspector Prof. Angel KunchevDr. Angel Kunchev was born in Simeonovgrad.

He completed his secondary education in the “Vasil, Dr. Savina Stoitsova from NCIPD, Prof. Karen Dzhambazov – Executive Director of St. George’s University Hospital, Prof. Mariana Murdzheva – Rector of MU, Associate Prof. Maria Atanasova, Head of the Laboratory of Immunology, Dr. Siika Dimcheva of RHI -secretary of the commission, Prof. Yordanka Stoilova and Prof. Ani Kevorkyan of the Department of Epidemiology and Disaster Medicine of the University of Medicine.

“The stages of the study have been cleared, including the proposal of the tests to be carried out. The people who will participate in the survey will complete questionnaires and a document for informed consent. The sampling schedule will be agreed with the citizens by phone. Tomorrow, at the end of the day, all the necessary documents will be sent to the Ethics Commission of the University of Medicine for approval, “explained the regional governor after the work meeting.

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He added that the survey will be carried out in accordance with all WHO criteria, and the selection of people will be carried out completely randomly. The survey work will cover more than 500 home addresses.

“The research methodology is very detailed and complex. The design meets all WHO requirements. The points in the 6 districts of Plovdiv have already been determined by the program so that there is a uniform representation of the entire city,” he said. adjunct professor Kunchev.

A German company was chosen to carry out the tests. According to the ELISA method, the blood samples of the participants in the representative study will be analyzed in the laboratory of MU and St. George Hospital.

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“ELISA demonstrates the presence of antibodies as they provide different types of information about the body’s immune response against the coronavirus,” said Professor Murdzheva. The study will give a picture in Plovdiv: how many people have encountered the virus and whether they have already contracted the disease or are carriers of the infection.

Half of the tests are available, and the rest will be delivered in stages over the next 14 days, the chief health inspector said.

“Everyone who participates will get their results. Participation of all household members is not mandatory, we focus on adults,” explained Dr. Stoitsova.

“The sampling will take place at the DCC of St. George Hospital, and in the Stolipinovo neighborhood it will be carried out by a mobile RHI team. MU volunteers, who will be part of the teams, were also determined and the maximum number of samples per day so that we can complete the study deadline by order of the Minister of Health, which is June 15. I appeal to people to really help us to do this representative study and to trust the teams that will “, concluded Dani Kanazireva.