The family doctor’s quick swab

New records of infections and victims in the last 24 hours in Italy. THE positives are 21,994 compared to 174,398 swabs. The dead are 221 (yesterday they were 141), according to data from the Ministry of Health. Jump of patients in intensive care due to Covid-19 in Italy: there are 127 more in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health, for a total of 1,411 people in intensive care. In ordinary wards there are already 13,955 patients, an increase of 958. The current positives have reached 255,090, 18,406 more than yesterday.

The family doctor’s quick swab

To decongest the testing system and be able to quickly identify new coronavirus infections, it will soon be possible to undergo quick swabs at the GP’s office. The government, in fact, focuses on family doctors and pediatricians to perform antigen tests, with a loan of 30 million euros in the Soft drink decree. In detail, if the test is performed in the professional’s office, a remuneration for general practitioners of 18 euros is expected, which should drop to 12 euros if the rapid swab is performed in an ASL facility. The cost of the tests will be borne by the state and not the patient.

The communication of the result of the buffer It will be carried out through an electronic report, which will be “including contact information, essential for the adoption of public health measures” such as isolation and quarantine and also essential for tracking procedures, according to the draft of the Ristori Decree.

Bargaining between medical unions and the government

These would be the provisions of the agreement with the medical unions, currently still in definition, for rapid swabs for the coronavirus in the offices of general practitioners and pediatricians of free choice. The medical unions were summoned this afternoon, October 27, by Sisac (Interregional Health Center with agreements) to discuss the terms of the agreement.

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As learned fromAnsa, 30 million euros would have been allocated for this purpose. The text is merged with the National Collective Agreement (the contract of employment of affiliated doctors) and could establish the obligation of all general practitioners to perform rapid tests. However, according to the source, the unions have requested that membership be exclusively voluntary. Instead, there would have been changes in the initial text in relation to the diagnostic tools that will be delivered by the Regions to medical offices: the training and maintenance of the equipment would no longer be the responsibility of the professionals.

The increase in cases and the point of Gianni Rezza

And while the negotiation between family doctors and the government continues, this afternoon during a press conference organized by the same Ministry together with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, to take stock of the health emergency situation in our Country, Gianni Rezza , General Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, highlighted that given the increase in cases of coronavirus in the Peninsula, intensive care is still below the alert level. “Today we are in a different situation than in March, we were the first to experience the pandemic, today other countries are leading the way and we are watching them very carefully,” he explained. This is because in March others learned from our experience; today we can understand where the epidemic could go if we do not take certain measures ”.