Kaunas residents wait for response to COVID-19 test for 4 days: a person can suffocate while waiting for the test



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On the night of December 16, the woman and her children underwent the COVID-19 test at one of the mobile points of the municipality of the city of Kaunas.

“My son and my temperature went up on Saturday. My son on Saturday, around 9pm at night, started to suffocate. We couldn’t call 1808 to see if we were going to the hospital. We are completely confused. We don’t know the result of the test. test COVID-19 on the fourth day. While waiting for the test, a person can suffocate, “Eltai said.

According to Kaunas, both she and her son have the “Korona Stop LT” app. The coronavirus test was conducted on Wednesday night precisely because the device showed 4 adjacent contacts next to the infected person.

“I don’t smell it, the temperature stays the same for a few days. Well, it’s a little 37.4,” he told Eltai.

The former Minister of Health, Aurelijus Veryga, commented on the situation after Elta did not contact the officials responsible for the institutions.

A. Veryga: Perhaps human error has crept in

Former Defense Minister Aurelijus Veryga Eltai said that the defamation was possibly investigated, only due to an ingrained logistical or human error, the answer was incorrectly entered into the system. The former minister acknowledged that similar cases have occurred.

“There have been situations where people reported confusing data when entering e-health and not entering it that way, so the person did not receive the message. In the spring, when the number of tests grew significantly, there were logistics problems between laboratories, as the number of tests was very unevenly distributed and one laboratory was unloaded and others were overloaded. Later we asked the National Blood Center to help us organize the logistics themselves. There have really been no major complaints about logistics lately, ”A. Veryga told Eltai.

R. Veryga maintains that every situation is different, so closely monitor where processes get stuck.

“Maybe a city gets stuck in the process or maybe there is a lot of congestion in a particular lab. It’s complicated and you have to find out where the problem is. Maybe it’s human error or the lab is stuck and should be helped,” said.

The National Public Health Center (NVSC) reports that 2927 cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were confirmed in Lithuania last day. 964 of them were registered in the counties of Vilnius, 383 Kaunas, 354 Klaipėda, 337 Panevėžys, 286 Šiauliai, 127 Utena, 122 Marijampolė, 115 Alytus, 112 Telšiai and 106 Tauragė.

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