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The Mayor of Cerro Navia, Mauro Tamayo, He denounced this Monday that in his commune there are PCR test results that have not been delivered, because the samples “expired”.
According to the communal chief, the samples exceeded the time limit they have to be processed, which is why it is no longer possible to determine if they are positive or negative.
SERIOUS COMPLAINT
1. There were 1800 samples # COVID19 earrings in @HealthOccident. Yesterday they sent 600 results of them 48 positive in #CerroNavia Remaining 1,200 pending today (did not occur) We have 200 results of pending exams.– Mauro Tamayo Rozas (@mtamayor) May 11, 2020
2. Examinations of the laboratory of the Lucio Cordova Center “were rejected for exceeding the storage time” and informed the service that the sampling should be carried out again … @ministeriosalud @pdazan or @arturozunigaj Can you tell us how many samples were “lost”?
– Mauro Tamayo Rozas (@mtamayor) May 11, 2020
In conversation with CNN Chile, the authority detailed that the West Metropolitan Health Service He had 1,800 exams pending, of which 600 were delivered this Sunday. Of these results, 48 tested positive for COVID-19 at Cerro Navia.
Meanwhile, until this Monday, 1,200 samples are still waiting in the western part of the capital. Of these, around 200 correspond to the commune led by Tamayo, who has received Between 3 to 10 complaints from neighbors saying that their tests had already expired.
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“This weekend sincere. They told us ‘we had problems analyzing the samples that had been taken’ and they point out that they had been lost, not in terms of being lost, but they had exceeded the maximum duration time from the sample to the analysis, therefore they no longer serve“He related.
“This shows that there may be problems with the reagents that laboratories have to have to analyze; or two, the collapse of the analysis laboratories; or third, it is a management problem, “added the community leader.
From the West Metropolitan Health Service informed through a statement that “in the last week the number of samples taken per day has increased significantly, reaching an average of 600 per day ”.
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“Given this scenario and taking into account that at a national level there is a network of laboratories available, the Service made arrangements to send accumulated samples to a laboratory in Puerto Montt, where they are being processed ”, they added.
“Further, the Service will have other laboratories to process your samples, which should start operating in the course of this week, allowing a faster response to rising demand ”, they concluded.
Meanwhile, during the daily report of the Minsal, the Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, She was consulted about the situation and stated that “today what I can say is that, in case the exams cannot be processed, they are distributed to another laboratory so that it can be done efficiently ”.
🔴 NOW – Undersecretary Daza responds to the complaint of “lost” exams for exceeding the time for them to be processed: “All the exams, in case they are exceeding the time, are distributed to other laboratories with less waiting.”
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– CNN Chile (@CNNChile) May 11, 2020
In hours of this afternoon, the municipality of Cerro Navia reported that are evaluating the possibility that people affected by the delay will be tested at home by the West Metropolitan Health Service.
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