China News Service, Beijing, May 24 (Reporter Kan Feng) At the press conference of the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism held on the 23rd, Guo Yanhong, the supervisory commissioner of the Medical Administration and Hospital Administration of the National Health Commission, said that the supervision of nucleic acid testing institutions will be further increased. Intensity of inspections, with special emphasis on practicing in accordance with the law, strictly testing quality, resolutely investigating and punishing violations of laws and regulations, and reporting them nationwide.
At present, under the background of exploring normalized nucleic acid testing in many places, nucleic acid testing sampling points in urban streets and alleys have become important sentinel points for epidemic prevention and control. Supervision.
The picture shows a Beijing citizen handing over his virus sampling tube to the sampling staff on May 22.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Jia Tianyong
Beijing investigates and punishes nucleic acid testing
violations
Recently, the incident of Beijing Pu Shi Medical Laboratory has aroused social concern.
According to the information on the government website of Fangshan District, Beijing, the supervisor found that the original test data of Pushi Medicine in Fangshan District, Beijing was significantly less than the number of samples tested.
After that, the Beijing police took criminal coercive measures against 6 people including Zhou Moumou, the actual controller of the laboratory.
On May 22, the Changping police in Beijing reported that two men had obtained the qualifications for nucleic acid sampling by forging and purchasing false nurse practitioner certificates. The inspection staff of the testing agency discovered that his qualifications were fraudulent, and was later arrested by the Changping police.
Referring to the chaos of third-party nucleic acid testing institutions, there have been related incidents in Hebei, Anhui, Shanghai and other places before.
For example, on April 23 this year, Hefei, Anhui Province reported that there were two medical testing laboratories in regional nucleic acid testing that were super-capable to undertake the testing business, issued test reports seriously exceeding the promised time, and even issued "false positive" reports.
Screenshot of the recruitment platform.
Rapidly growing nucleic acid testing market
Since March this year, the Omicron epidemic has occurred in many parts of the country, and several rounds of large-scale nucleic acid testing have been carried out in some areas.
On May 9, a teleconference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council emphasized that large cities should establish nucleic acid "sampling circles" within a 15-minute walk.
In fact, many places in China have been exploring normalized nucleic acid testing since the beginning of this year.
For example, Shenzhen, Guangdong has set up a convenient nucleic acid sampling point for every 30,000 people, and has more than 700 sampling points in a grid layout in the city. 72-hour nucleic acid testing records are implemented in the city's travel and commuting. Citizens need nucleic acid testing on an average day. The volume is 8-10 million person-times.
The relevant person in charge of the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission told the media that in terms of sampling, dispatching sampling personnel through district public hospitals in the early stage would easily lead to shortage of medical staff and affect the normal order of diagnosis and treatment in medical institutions; Sending people, purchasing third-party sampling services, etc., forming a sampling team to participate in nucleic acid sampling work has greatly eased the pressure on medical staff to take sampling.
In the past two years, third-party testing institutions have indeed effectively made up for the lack of testing resources in various places. At the same time, the normalized nucleic acid testing has also rapidly increased the market demand for testing.
According to statistics released by Qichacha this month, there are more than 1,700 existing medical testing-related companies in my country. In terms of growth rate, 301 new companies will be added in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 20.4%. As of now, 145 new companies have been added in 2022. Family.
The rapid increase in demand has also made nucleic acid testing personnel in short supply. On the recruitment platform, a large number of recruitment information about "nucleic acid detectors", "sampling assistants" and "samplers with nurse certificates" can be searched. Third-party testing institutions, labor service companies, local medical institutions, etc.
According to data recently disclosed by the National Health and Medical Commission, at present, there are about 13,000 laboratories nationwide with nucleic acid testing qualifications for the new coronavirus, and 153,000 technicians who have obtained nucleic acid testing qualifications.
On May 23, a normalized nucleic acid detection sampling point in Chaoyang District, Beijing.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu
Nucleic acid testing institutions are strictly regulated in various places
The quality of nucleic acid testing is crucial to the judgment and prevention of the epidemic.
For more than two years of epidemic prevention and control, third-party testing institutions have effectively supplemented the epidemic prevention forces in various places. The nucleic acid sampling "big white" from third-party testing institutions has also won praise from the public in the streets and alleys.
However, with the surge in market size, some cases of violations of laws and regulations in the third-party inspection market still attract the attention of public opinion.
In order to ensure the accuracy and reliability of nucleic acid test results, the head of the National Health Commission's Medical Administration and Hospital Administration recently introduced that while normalizing the laboratory's indoor quality control work, the National Clinical Inspection Center will be organized to conduct monthly inter-laboratory quality evaluations in the laboratory. , so far, more than 38,000 laboratories have been evaluated, and the pass rate is 99.4%.
Regarding the increasing number of third-party testing institutions, the above-mentioned person in charge said that for laboratories that have false negatives, false positives, or even false test reports, they will increase supervision and deal with them in accordance with laws and regulations, and will never tolerate them.
Various methods such as "unannounced inspections", regular random inspections, and publication of the list of qualified laboratories will be comprehensively used to continuously improve the quality of nucleic acid testing.
At the local level, recently, many places have also strengthened the supervision and inspection of nucleic acid testing institutions.
The Beijing Municipal Health Commission stated that it will strengthen industry management, communication and coordination, and establish a joint monitoring mechanism for nucleic acid inspection quality in conjunction with drug administration, public security and other departments, and carry out the "Bright Sword" special governance action.
In addition, the whole process of testing suspicious cases and positive samples will be traced, and institutions that have standardized nucleic acid testing work and strict quality control will be notified and praised, and the task of nucleic acid testing will be tilted. Regulatory investigation.
On May 5, at a press conference on epidemic prevention and control held in Zhejiang Province, the Hangzhou Municipal Health and Health Commission stated that it is necessary to strengthen the standardized management of the whole process of nucleic acid testing such as "collection, delivery, inspection, reporting, transfer, and receipt", while strengthening sampling, Business training for assistance, information entry and on-site support personnel to further improve the quality of sampling and testing.
In Changsha, Hunan, in April, the market supervision department of Changsha City launched a one-month special inspection on the potential risks of new coronavirus nucleic acid testing institutions in the city. Under the circumstance of few personnel and urgent tasks, strictly implement and build a whole-process quality system, and conduct detailed inspections of medical devices such as new coronavirus detection reagents.
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