Swab scam, ten thousand irregular kits seized

10/15/2020 Health



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The Carabinieri de la Nas de Naples, assisted by the men of the Provincial Commands of Naples and Caserta, seized yesterday morning more than ten thousand kits ready to be used for alleged anti COVID-19. It has been defined “the hyssop scam»The frustrated by the military who completed the operation by executing a registration decree issued by PM Maria Di Mauro of the Naples Prosecutor’s Office against personalities and companies operating in the health sector. The recipients of the benefit are suspected of belonging to a criminal association destined for the commission of crimes of fraud and abusive exercise of the health profession, carried out through the irregular execution of nasopharyngeal swabs.

During the controls in the organizational chain in charge of health screening, the researchers’ magnifying glass was attracted by a Web page that sponsored swabs and serological tests to search for the coronavirus, with the possibility of online reservations. Subsequent research shed light on an organization made up of health personnel (some even have an agreement with the Regional Health Service), employees in the territorial emergency stations (118) who have acted in collaboration with a company that operates in the field of marketing medical devices, and several fixers, dedicated toillegal execution of tampons at home.

The tests were then processed immediately, through electromedical devices and instrumental kits. non-regulatory or not suitable for the specific diagnostic test and, therefore, potentially dangerous also for the spread of the epidemic. In addition to the 10,000 swab kits, some of which expired, hundreds of quick tests, computer equipment, electro-medical equipment for the processing of swabs and serological tests, as well as a large sum of money.