Hefei Epidemic Prevention and Control Emergency Headquarters notified on the 23rd that Hefei Hehe Medical Laboratory and Hefei Nuoweier Medical Laboratory are in In nucleic acid testing, not only did the super-capacity undertake the testing business, and the testing report was issued significantly beyond the promised time, which affected Hefei’s timely judgment on the epidemic situation, but also issued “false positive” reports several times, which seriously interfered with the overall situation of Hefei’s epidemic prevention and control. The two nucleic acid testing laboratories issued warnings and suspended cooperation.
Once the notification was disclosed, there was an uproar in public opinion: “How much confusion will a false positive result in? How much economic loss will it cause?” >
Nucleic acid detection is an effective means of precise prevention and control. It is the first line of defense to actively screen asymptomatic infections and implement the requirements of “early detection, early reporting, early diagnosis, and early isolation”. Control the spread of the epidemic from the source, and prevent the entire epidemic prevention and control from being greatly passive due to the inability to diagnose and isolate in time. This is the “basic operation” of epidemic prevention and control, and it is also the basic common sense known to the public.
However, Hefei’s notification shows that this basic common sense has been “destroyed” by individual nucleic acid testing institutions that know the most about the importance of nucleic acid testing and should have the least problems. The two nucleic acid testing laboratories were warned and their cooperation suspended. The decision of the Hefei epidemic prevention and control department was considered a remedy, but many questions remain to be answered-
How did the “false positive” report come out? Should the details be disclosed? Should the public have the right to know?
Since the “super-capacity to undertake the testing business” and “severely exceed the promised time to issue the testing report”, how did such a testing agency contract the testing business? Should the qualification standards and access procedures of testing institutions be open and transparent?
Is it suspected of breaking the law for falsifying nucleic acid test results, is it just “warning and suspending cooperation” is “three drinks fine”?
Nucleic acid testing is one of the most important lines of defense for epidemic prevention and control. Once this line of defense is “fallen”, the consequences will be disastrous. The issuance of “false positive” reports interferes with the overall situation of the war epidemic, which is of a very bad nature and has very serious consequences. Nucleic acid testing has a large business volume, and there are also interest chains. In this regard, the discipline inspection and supervision department should intervene, conduct a comprehensive and thorough “test” on the qualifications and access procedures of nucleic acid testing institutions, and strengthen supervision. Possible violations of discipline and law must be Severe accountability and severe punishment will ensure that all parties involved in nucleic acid testing will not dare to make trouble.