A telephone platform for making appointments for Covid-19 screening was set up on Monday in Ile-de-France, to resolve the "difficulties sometimes encountered with certain laboratories", announced the Regional Agency for health (ARS) Ile-de-France.
This device, launched with biologists and liberal doctors in the region, is intended for "symptomatic people or contacts of confirmed cases" and "works only on call from a doctor," said the ARS in a press release.
The denounced deadlines
Open “7 days a week, from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm”, the platform must allow any patient who “cannot get an appointment for screening within 24 hours” to be referred “immediately to a laboratory that will take them in. charge within guaranteed times ”.
For several weeks, the deadlines to access screening - but also to obtain the result - have been singled out, the queues stretching out in front of certain laboratories in Ile-de-France, where the circulation of the coronavirus is more "Active" than in other regions, according to health authorities.
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