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With a request for a week, self-paying the next day: Tests? Terrible business, says Brňan

He had a request from his GP to test for coronavirus infection. Although he was looking for a vacancy throughout Moravia, the nearest required date for taking the test was in six days. Forty-three-year-old Brňan, who did not want to give his name, therefore dropped the application and the next day he headed for the test as a self-payer. He knows his editorial name. The man pointed out the discrepancy between full testing capacities for people with a request and free ones for those who come without it.

The experience of Brno

* He apparently became infected at work.

* For several days he lay at home with symptoms.

* Then, on the advice of hygienists, he received a request for a test for Covid on Monday.

* His partner and his friend were looking for a free date at forty sampling points all over Moravia.

* The next free date could be used only on Sunday.

* He decided not to wait, on Tuesday he went for the test as a self-payer.

Brňan apparently became infected at work. After his health deteriorated last Thursday, he called for hygiene, where he was told to stay a few days to see if his condition improved. “At first I felt better, but after a few days my condition worsened. On hygiene, they told me on Sunday to call a district doctor to issue me with a request for a test, “the man described on Thursday.

The doctor exposed it to him on Monday. His partner and friend were looking for a vacancy at about forty locations throughout Moravia. He wouldn’t take the tests until Sunday. “I was so sick that I was willing to go to get tested in Hradec Králové, where they had a vacancy before,” said the man in his forties.

He eventually rejected this variant. Instead of waiting for the testing paid for by the insurance company, he decided to pay 1,750 crowns for it as a self-payer. He went to the collection point of a private company the very next day. “The amount was not a significant impact on the family budget and the resulting security is worth it, but it seemed like a terrible business to me. They have time off for self-payers and they do not have a request for the indicated, “Brňan shook his head.

He had the test result on the same afternoon, only a few hours had passed since the sample was taken. He confirmed his coronavirus infection. The man working as the head of machine maintenance is currently in a fortnight’s quarantine. Members of his family also ended up in solitary confinement for ten days. In his work, about ten other people became infected with coronavirus.

According to Miroslav Staňek from regional hygiene, it is not possible to set a maximum waiting time for testing. “We are not able to order laboratories what part of the capacity should be for self-payers and which is public. There are more people who want to have the tests paid for by the insurance company than there are people who pay for the tests themselves, which is why there is such an onslaught. But we are not in a position to do anything about this situation, “said Staněk.

Student Radek Preis was surprised by the different waiting times. “It seems strange to me that if people pay for a coronavirus test, they can go for it the next day, while they get a request from a doctor in a week at the earliest. Without the covid, the whole situation would be almost ironic, “remarked the young Brňan.

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