Primary health care physicians can now order coronavirus tests via the salon.gov.pl application, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Wojciech Andrusiewicz, on Saturday.
Fall COVID-19 Strategy
The ministry has prepared an action strategy that is intended, in the mind of the ministry, of, inter alia, increase the efficiency of the use of medical personnel and infrastructure. The ministry explains that the strategy is related to, inter alia, with the fact that in the fall and winter we will face not only COVID-19, but also infections that usually appear at this time of the year.
One of its elements is the inclusion of primary care in ordering tests for patients with a respiratory tract infection. “As with any infection, patients first go to primary health care, that is under the care of a family doctor”.
As the spokesman of the Ministry of Health informed: – As part of the office application on the website www.ofezet.gov.pl, the Ministry of Health launched the functionality of targeting coronavirus-related tests for primary care physicians.
Doctors are concerned about safety
However, GPs are concerned about the safety of their patients and medical staff. The College of Family Physicians in Poland (associating 4,5 thousand family doctors) in a letter to the Ministry of Health indicated, inter alia, that the requirement of a personal physical examination of the patient before commissioning laboratory diagnostics for SARS-CoV2 is unjustified.
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«A strategy is certainly needed, without it it would be difficult to plan the fight against COVID-19. But we need to talk about this strategy, which is why we proposed a meeting. We want to talk about the role of POZ in the strategy, about testing, telepaths and tools that can be used, said the College’s spokesman, Dr. Michał Sutkowski.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski is to meet with representatives of the college on Monday.
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