The Cieza City Council has reported that the Management of Area IX Vega Alta del Segura, dependent on the Autonomous Community of Murcia, has clarified and denied in a statement certain information released about tests of Covid-19.
"In relation to news circulating on Facebook in Cieza about COVID19 tests to people without indication or by" pressure "from certain municipalities, this address wants to communicate:
The current COVID19 test carried out in our health area is carried out according to instructions from the Ministry of Health and the Murcian Health Service at:
Patients with symptoms of relative importance need or do not need admission.
Patients with symptoms that are especially susceptible and can be worsened by having it significantly due to their previous health conditions.
Any patient with mild symptoms who is institutionalized and has people living around them without being able to isolate themselves at home, for example, people who live in nursing homes, social health centers, hotels, shelters or municipal wards.
Health personnel and / or any personnel working in health institutions with any symptoms.
Any healthcare personnel or not, and caregivers who work in social institutions, such as nursing homes and social and healthcare facilities, home help, etc.
with symptoms, even if their symptoms are mild.
Any member of the state or local security forces and bodies with symptoms, even mild.
Any other person with or without symptoms in which the health authority determines it for reasons of public health, to prevent these people from transmitting the infection to a significant number of other people or to susceptible people. "
"This is to date, it is not ruled out that in the future, depending on the availability of tests, the protocols will be modified and they will be made to more people.
"In this sense, before rumors or news that the Directorate of Health Area 9 of the Region of Murcia, which includes the Blanca, Abarán and Cieza Health Centers and the Hospital de la Vega Lorenzo Guirao, has been" pressured "to carry out tests to certain people out of protocol we declare that they do not adjust at all to reality ".
"In this COVID19 crisis, loyalty and mutual institutional support between our health centers and the 3 municipalities in the area have been exquisite, being in fluid and permanent communication to avoid sources of contagion, to cut the transmission chains of the virus when it is possible, as well as to prevent and solve socio-sanitary cases of people who need help from social services, "the statement concludes.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza / Foto: archivo