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For money, coronavirus tests are performed at the SK Impeks Medical Diagnostic Center and the Baltic Medicine Laboratory.
“We started testing for a fee in mid-May. We do around 20 tests every day. (…) The need is really there, people are calling, they want to explore, there are people going abroad to work,” he said. Ilona Osminina, Quality Manager of the Baltic Medicine Laboratory, at BNS.
According to her, around 150-200 people were studied during this period.
The need really is, people call, they want to explore, they are extroverts to work abroad.
The SK Impeks Medical Diagnostic Center has similarly investigated the same thing.
“We receive many people who just want to check, and we are very interested in companies in the country that plan to resume office work and take care of the safety of returning employees,” said Ina Šapranauskienė, director of the Laboratory Diagnostics Center. of the company.
In private laboratories, the cost of a coronavirus test ranges from € 70 to € 80.
The coronavirus has not yet been identified in any of the privately studied subjects.
“For whom this information was relevant, I could find it”
On Wednesday, the BNS Health Ministry confirmed that for those who want to get a coronavirus test, the tests can also be done for a fee in private laboratories.
According to the Ministry of Health, a ministerial order authorizing this was signed on May 6.
When asked why the ministry had not announced the decision earlier, health minister Aurelijus Veryga said at a press conference on Wednesday that “those with the relevant information could find it.”
“We really don’t want to encourage people to travel and explore. Research is needed when there is a reason to do so. Even without the need, we carry out preventive investigations,” the minister said.
“There is a need for some special announcement, advertising for private laboratories, their business activities, encouraging residents to seek research, spending money when it is not needed, we really did not see the need, nor would we encourage it to go there now,” he added. .
According to the ministry, only five private laboratories can perform paid tests to determine COVID-19.
Promises to start investigating this week or next
Three of them, the Diagnostic Laboratory, the Laboratory of Practical Medicine and the Invitro Diagnosis, are not yet testing the coronavirus.
“Not long ago, we learned that we could organize the sampling. As this is a different process, we had to prepare very strongly. (…) We have not received any yet, there are callers, we register them and organize the sampling” said Dangira Babenskienė, Director of Medicine at the Diagnostic Laboratory.
“For today, we probably have seven people waiting in line when we invite them. We are planning this week.”
Svajūnas Barakauskas, director of the Laboratory of Practical Medicine, told BNS that the company had seen the minister’s order and was preparing for the possibility of conducting a coronavirus test, but was delayed because they were unsure whether it could be done.
“You know, I’m more careful, it’s better when you say it officially, so you don’t get over it. (…) I wouldn’t have understood it yet.” He always managed to get on the rake, “he said.
According to S.Barakauskas, the company could start evaluating the population “even today.”
Invitro diagnostika plans to register those who want to register starting next week.
“We only received private calls after this day, there was no influx that we wanted to conduct an investigation,” Deputy Director Laura Bakanė told BNS.
Rolanda Lingienė, head of the Vilnius department of the National Center for Public Health, says the center receives all information related to coronavirus testing from the labs, including tests that are done for a fee.
Photo by Arno Strumila / 15min / Rolanda Lingienė
“Since these laboratories also perform tests on behalf of the state, they provide the National Public Health Laboratory with all the information on how many tests were performed per day, without distinguishing between commercial and non-commercial tests,” R. Lingienė told BNS.
Since the ministry’s decision last week, mobile stations have no longer been able to prophylactically test for coronavirus.
Mobile sites primarily screen people who experience at least one of the symptoms of an acute respiratory infection or who have been treated at home for a mild form of coronavirus, and the study should be done to confirm recovery.
In addition, people who undergo scheduled medical procedures, with the exception of dental and oral care services, people admitted to social care institutions for long or short-term care, and returnees from abroad.
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