• Health: This is how Madrid wants to extend the antigen tests to pharmacies

The

Ministry of Health

has responded this Thursday to the letter from the

Community of Madrid

about the possibility of testing in pharmacies in the region and has indicated that the competence of carrying out these diagnostic tests would fall to the autonomous communities.

In the letter from the Ministry, to which Europa Press has had access, it is stated that screening studies "could only be considered in certain situations with a high transmission rate in a specific geographic area or in the target population for screening, and that only rapid antigen detection tests will be used if PCR resources are limited. "

"The Ministry only authorizes tests to be carried out in areas with high transmission where screening is done and it also takes two months to tell us that this is regulated by the autonomous communities. The minister remains disoriented and does not understand how this virus works. We must facilitate the entire community population that can be tested and expand the diagnostic capacity ", sources from the

Ministry of Health

have transferred to Europa Press

.

In the letter, the central government indicates that, "after a careful analysis" by the team of the Ministry of Health, the Instructions for use of the tests established by the manufacturer contemplate the performance of people with clinical and / or epidemiological

criteria

of

Covid -19

, such as symptomatic people, close contacts of confirmed asymptomatic cases, and asymptomatic people in settings with high transmission and epidemiological risk.

Therefore, the Ministry recalls that "the use of these tests must be aligned with the intended purpose of the manufacturer."

"The properties of the test in terms of sensitivity and specificity are only to be expected if they are used according to the intended use by the manufacturer," he continues.

The proposal to have

accredited

Pharmacy Offices to

carry

out rapid antigen tests for the diagnosis of

Covid

infection

, exclusively selecting the population based on criteria established by the

General Directorate of Public Health

of the Community, could be, according to the Ministry, considered in this sense as "an extraordinary measure", provided that "this participation of the Pharmacy Offices is part of a selective population screening action in the context of a

Community

Public Health

program

".

In this sense, they do recognize "the work carried out by the

Community of Madrid

in the development of procedures and protocols for carrying out these diagnostic tests in pharmacy offices".

Other assumptions such as participation on demand for any citizen, as described in the regional proposal, for the Ministry "would not be included in the

Strategy for Early Detection, Surveillance and Control of Covid-19

and also" represents a use other than the purpose intended by the manufacturer ".

"As always, I take this opportunity to thank you for the work you are doing in the Community of Madrid in the response to

Covid-19

and

send you

a cordial greeting," the Minister of Health,

Salvador Illa

, concludes in the letter

.

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