Madrid enables antigen test points separate from the ER in 15 public hospitals

• Covid The Madrid protocol for those who test positive at home with an antigen test: notification and isolation

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The Community of Madrid has enabled, since this Wednesday, points for the performance of antigen tests in public hospitals in the region, in independent circuits of the Emergency services,

and exclusively for those who present symptoms compatible with Covid- 19.

This health operation

of positive cases. The objective of this initiative is to meet the increased demand from citizens who really need to undergo these diagnostic tests, but without interfering with the ordinary activity of the Emergency Services of these public health centers.

The measure started this afternoon in the hospitals of La Princesa (Madrid), Henares (Coslada), Infanta Leonor (Madrid), Sureste (Arganda del Rey) and Fuenlabrada. Tomorrow they will do it at the La Paz (Madrid), October 12 (Madrid), Gregorio Marañón (Madrid), Ramón y Cajal (Madrid), Torrejón, Infanta Sofía (San Sebastián de los Reyes), Alcorcón and Getafe hospitals. Likewise, from this next Friday, the San Carlos and Infanta Cristina Clinic (Parla) will join this strategy. In total there are

distributed throughout the Community of Madrid.

In addition, the Ministry of Health has established a new protocol for the population that performs a self-diagnosis test and obtains a positive result in Covid-19. Thus, in the event of a positive result, the person must communicate it to the free telephone number

so that they collect their data and inform them of the measures to be adopted.

The Ministry of Health will consider this result to be truly positive and will recommend

, avoid receiving visits and take the usual preventive measures. If you have a fever over 38º degrees and / or respiratory distress, you will have to contact your health center where you can be instructed to apply a diagnostic test for active infection (PDIA) to confirm the diagnosis. If it is an emergency, you should contact the telephone number 112.

Regarding the close contacts of people who obtain a positive result with the self-diagnosis tests, if they are vaccinated with a complete schedule, in addition to taking extreme measures of prevention, they should reduce the outputs to the essential ones.

In addition,

for 7-10 days after exposure.

In case of going to work, you should keep preventive measures with

, preferably surgical and regardless of the distance, and avoid meetings for breakfast and lunch.

You should also limit social interactions to the essentials and avoid going to crowded places and large events.

It is recommended that close contacts of positive cases take extreme preventive measures,

, monitoring the appearance of symptoms, and if they occur, contact a health center for clinical, risk and risk assessment. conducting PDIA, if applicable.

If the straits are not vaccinated, they should contact their health center where they will indicate the need to maintain quarantine and carry out a PDIA according to the Strategy for Early Detection, Surveillance and Control of Covid-19 of the Community of Madrid

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