48 covid-19 screening tests that tested positive at the Santa Casa de Vila Verde facilities have now turned out to be negative after counter-analysis in another laboratory, the institution’s provider told O MINHO.
According to Bento Morais, 48 of the 49 positive tests released on Thursday were thwarted by a new screening, carried out in another laboratory, thus generating indignation among those responsible for the Vila Verde institution.
The provider explains that, at the request of the Cabreira / Gerês Health Center Group, which oversees the municipality of Vila Verde, 69 screening tests were carried out at the Continuing Care Unit, with 49 of these tests proving to be positive. The exams, O MINHO knows, will have been carried out in a laboratory at the University of Minho.
But the institution was surprised by the results of the tests, indicating that none of the subjects had symptoms and that all measures were always meticulously met: “I said I didn’t believe it, nobody had symptoms, we have the best protective equipment, properly protected facilities, air renovated instead of air conditioning, so we asked an accredited laboratory to carry out the same tests and yesterday we received the results indicating that only 1 out of 69 was positive ”.
Bento Morais adds that the employee who accused positive was already referred for having had contact with infected people, so there is “no surprise in this case”. “The others were surprising, because the three cases we had previously were of patients who came from public hospitals, two now recovered and the third on the way to recovery”, adds the provider.
The official explains that a letter was sent to the Mayor of Vila Verde, the Health delegate, ACES, the Directorate-General for Health and the Ministry of Health in order to cancel the first data, already recorded in the epidemiological report released yesterday. . Today’s case still contains the supposed positive cases of the institution.
“This is very serious, we have several employees who were sent home with sick leave paid 100% by order of the health authorities and this is very serious, as there was no consideration by these same authorities when we told them that it would be impossible to have that number of infections in the institution ”, contextualizes.
And he says more: “Not only as a provider but as a citizen, I feel indignant at the lack of consideration in this case, which I can only point out as an outrage to Mercy”.
“Our team is highly qualified, we have an anesthesiologist specialized in this type of diseases, a biologist and a nurse with more than four years of experience in infectious diseases, which shows that we have not been playing, neither with patients nor with family members. It is all very serious, ”says Bento Morais.
In the letter sent to the authorities, which O MINHO had access to, Santa Casa de Vila Verde explains that, in a universe of 650 employees, “only one was positive”, and that out of a universe of 300 users, there is only one infected person who it will have come from a public hospital already in these conditions.
They also report that, out of 120 doctors working in the body, there is no record of infection. He adds that, “following this episode, 44 users hospitalized in the units were tracked by INEM, of which only one tested positive”, and that it was already known. It also adds that “all patients are stable”.
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