Hospital and laboratory in Cali give false negatives coronavirus

12/09/2020 Health



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The complaint was filed by the Vale del Cauca Health Secretary, Cristina Lesmes, and was shared by the mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina, on his Twitter account.

“It seems vile to me, criminal that there may be a laboratory that delivers false results, invented tests for Covid,” reacted Ospina, and asked that the Prosecutor take this case and that justice “act.”

The authorities found, according to Secretary Lesmes, that one of the laboratories is “garage”, and that “did not have the requirements” that are required for its operation, said El País.

The official warned that this type of irregular practices increases the risk of contagion and makes the tracking of contacts more complicated, in case a person is positive for coronavirus and they give him a negative result that was altered.

The local media reported that, according to sources from the health office, until this Wednesday “neither the IPS nor the garage laboratory have been closed, but the respective complaints have already been made known to the competent authority ”.

False coronavirus results warn amid occupation of ICU beds in Cali

The complaint of the laboratories that altered results of coronavirus tests is known just when health authorities report that 3 clinics, in Cali, have been 100% in their ICU bed occupancy.

These are “The Imbanaco Medical Center, the Valle del Lili Foundation and the Hospital Universitario del Valle”confirmed the Cali newspaper.

The concern increases if one takes into account that the new cases of contagion in the department grew in the last three days, since went from 743 (December 6) to 1,402 (December 8).



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