A white barnum in an activity area, a few white coats wearing charlottes and surgical masks. The instructions written on a kakemono: "Please park and stay in your vehicle". The decor is minimalist and the signage could be improved. But since this Friday, it is possible to perform a coronavirus screening, without having to go to the hospital or to an analysis laboratory, provided that you have a prescription for the sample.
Direction Lisses, in Essonne, a municipality of less than 8,000 inhabitants, very close to the A6 motorway, where the Cerballiance group inaugurated this Friday a “Corona drive”, otherwise known as roadside screening, as it already exists in France. foreigner (Germany, Canada…)
Cost of the test: 54 euros, reimbursed by social security and mutuals
"The motorist stays in his car," says Patrice Hérisson, regional director of Cerballiance Ile-de-France, which employs 600 people and 53 medical biology laboratories, including one in Lisse. "The motorist lowers his window, a protected biologist performs the nasal swab using a swab, which will be analyzed on the technical platform next to it, and the result is sent to the prescribing doctor after five or five days. six hours on average ”. "This device makes it possible to limit contamination by avoiding contact between patients who would go to the laboratory for different pathologies" insists Aude Lesenne, pharmacist biologist at Cerballiance.
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Cost of the test: 54 euros, reimbursed by social security and mutuals. These screenings are aimed at both city patients and caregivers, always with a prescription, capable of coming by car or being accompanied, like this woman sitting in the passenger seat, in a car registered in Essonne. Everyone should preferably wear a mask.
"If we are sure of the reliability of the test, then it is a very good idea, it can allow us to remove the doubt more effectively" estimates Doctor Philippe Paranque, president of SOS Doctors in Essonne.
Monday to Friday as well as Saturday morning
At Cerballiance, we remind you that coming before two or three days of symptoms could falsify the tests. However, it remains for doctors to advise when the time is right to have this sample taken after symptoms appear.
The test performed is the same as that which has been carried out for one week for private hospitals, eighty in total in one week, according to the technique known as "RT-PCR". This Friday, around thirty patients benefited from this new type of screening in the region.
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Screenings must take place from Monday to Friday as well as Saturday morning. Depending on the needs and availability of employees, the collection stand could also operate on Sundays. Lisse will probably not be the only address. Cerballiance Ile-de-France plans to set up other screening points in the coming days, in Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne, in Yvelines, Val-d'Oise and Hauts-de-Seine . The addresses remain to be confirmed.