Who can be struck off in the test center of the district and who is not?
This question apparently confuses and leads to accusation.
Two principles help avoid misunderstandings.
Miesbach - Who is allowed to be struck off in the test center of the district and who is not?
Lately, our newspaper and the district administration have received replies with this question several times.
"Every now and then" even people complained to whom the doctors at the Miesbacher Oberlandhalle rightly refused to take the smear, but who felt that they were wrongly rejected, "because the rules as to when who can be tested and where are simply so complex, that no one understands them anymore, "wrote a spokeswoman for the authority when asked.
Always to the family doctor with symptoms, almost always for PCR tests
If you want to alleviate your confusion, there are two principles that can help, which emerge from the table for free test options of the Ministry of Health, which the District Office refers to on its website. The most important principle: If you want to be tested without symptoms or with a slight scratchy throat, you are helping to contain the corona pandemic. The federal government pays for this, so the test center can carry out a rapid test (not a PCR test!). If you have stronger symptoms, you always have to go to your family doctor for a test, not the test center. This is due to the necessary treatment and its accounting. If a patient has stronger symptoms, he needs medical treatment: examination, medication, sick leave. The test center can neither provide nor account for this. Health insurance pays for medical treatment,not the federal government.
Second principle: The test center only offers free tests.
This currently applies to the rapid tests paid for by the federal government.
In the case of PCR tests, the federal government only pays in special cases, for example for contact persons of infected people and people with a positive rapid test.
In these exceptional cases, the test center offers rapid PCR tests.
Everyone else needs to see a family doctor for PCR testing.
Complicated test rules create confusion
A letter that our newspaper received this week shows why these principles are important: A reader complains that two people close to him were refused swabs at the test center and that both were “simply sent away”.
Apparently, he concludes, politicians are not taking the situation seriously.
The problem: Both rejected sufferers, according to the reader, from symptoms typical of the corona.
So they weren't allowed to be struck off in the test center;
they have to go to the family doctor.
The reader's anger at the test center is the result of a misunderstanding.
Those who internalize the test principles avoid similar cases.
Because, emphasizes the district office: The test center does not refuse any authorized person a smear test.