Hundreds of people in Munich want to be tested for the corona virus. The rush is big. A woman is now making serious allegations against the test situation.
- The number of coronavirus infections is increasing in Munich .
- However, the test system for the new Sars-CoV-2 reaches its limits in the capital.
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Munich - Your 16 days at home in corona quarantine - that was also Marianne W. (55) countless minutes in different queues on the phone. The Munich native had to experience firsthand that the test system had reached its limits . After a long shiver, she still doesn't know if she had the virus or not.
With symptoms of the corona test
It started the whole mess to the corona tests than the PR consultant with a sore throat and high fever 116 117 calls of call duty of doctors' association of Bavaria to the hotline. "There it was said, my daughter, her friend, my partner and I had to be in quarantine as a precaution," reports the Munich native. But who is treating them now? The family doctor doesn't. "I was really bad, meanwhile I also had a headache and cough. The hotline just said that if I was short of breath I should call 112 ... "
After several phone calls, Marianne W. gets a test appointment at the drive-in on Theresienwiese. "It wasn't trustworthy there either: The men in the first tent recorded my data incorrectly, I had to repeat myself again and again." The doctor in the second tent confirmed this feeling. "He was upset because, as he said, he had to keep correcting the data."
Behind her the cars are lining up in front of the tents, the sampling is done in a chord.
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Sloppiness in the virus test: 16 days without result
Then it gets even more chaotic: Because the result of her test simply does not experience the Munich woman . "When I hadn't heard anything for days, I called the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the health department several times." The information is always different: Sometimes it says that something went wrong. Next time, your case is in progress. An employee is said to have even told her that there were always problems with the tests from Theresienwiese .
PR consultant Marianne W. smears in her car at the test station.
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For 16 days she tries unsuccessfully to find out about her test. She is angry: "You can't handle people like that ?! I am self-employed. That also has financial implications for me ... “After all: At the beginning of the week - Marianne W. has long since been free of symptoms again - a doctor reports to the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians. "He said he couldn't find my data - but he was quarantining hereby."
Now Marianne W. can work again and take her dog for a walk in the forest - but she is not smarter. “Something isn't going right here. I'm definitely not the only one who did that. And when I think of the affected seniors: They can't always make phone calls like me afterwards ... I'm now certain that the number of cases cannot be right if the testing is so chaotic. "
This is what the KVB says about the allegation
When asked by the tz, the responsible association of statutory health insurance physicians in Bavaria asked for "understanding that the 37,268 tests that have been carried out since March 2, 2020, mean that the KVB cannot (...) trace the case, which is definitely annoying". It goes on to say: "We are in a current exceptional situation that is pushing not only KVB, but all organizations and institutions in the healthcare sector to their limits."
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Family doctor says: "It happens all the time"
Marianne W.'s case is not an isolated case : A family doctor from the west of Munich, whose name is known to the editors, confirms: "It happens all the time that patients hear nothing of their results."
The general practitioner makes regular cuts for the on-call service of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians. “Patients keep calling me who are not informed. Then I personally contact the laboratories. “But he also doesn't get information about all patients. " An absolute absurdity. Patients depend completely in the air. "The congestion at the KVB must not be, the doctor says to tz. "You could quickly and easily remove staff from other areas and use it to notify patients."
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The following applies to all people who are not asked to take the test by the health department: If you have a specific suspicion that you have been infected with the corona virus because they have the corresponding symptoms and have had contact with people who tested positive or were in a risk area , in order to minimize the risk of infection, do not go to the practice, but contact the family doctor or the KVB by phone at 11 61 17 and discuss how to proceed.
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