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This is foreseen in the decision signed on Thursday by the head of state emergency operations, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga. It establishes that the general medicine nurse has the right to examine the patient or take the necessary sample in health, social assistance and other institutions and at the patient’s home.
According to the ministry, this facilitation is especially relevant in the case of rapid serological tests aimed at examining high-risk groups such as teachers, pharmacists, social workers, supermarket workers.
“Municipalities that organize rapid serological testing will no longer need to direct large flows of patients to personal healthcare facilities, and healthcare professionals will be able to go to work or home and perform tests there,” the SAM report said.
According to the ministry, this is to avoid the risk of spreading the coronavirus, which can arise when patients who want to be tested travel or wait in health care centers.
Aurelija Žvirblienė, a researcher at the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center who led the rapid test, criticized the decision to prescribe rapid tests to teachers last week because they are not suitable for early diagnosis and show the best results 14- 50 days after the first symptoms of the coronavirus or the positive molecular test (PCR).
The teacher questioned the appropriateness of such a quick assessment by teachers.
However, the minister assures that rapid tests are more aimed at evaluating the current situation in schools and noting how it is changing.
Among other things, some rapid tests are currently used for population research.
For 6 million. The Financial Crime Investigation Service is conducting an investigation into the purchase of rapid tests for coronavirus worth EUR
Complaints from this pre-trial investigation were presented to the then Deputy Minister of Health, Lina Jaruševičienė, in early August.
According to the FNTT, she is suspected of a possible abuse of office beyond her powers, which could have caused significant damage to the state. In total, six people have already been charged in this pre-trial investigation.
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