The Ribera Salud company charges for PCR tests that are carried out in public

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The joint Central Laboratory of the six new hospitals of the Madrid Health Service (SERMAS), which has been privatized again by the regional government and whose last award in the month of July fell to the private health company Ribera Salud , is diverting hundreds of PCR samples to detect the Sars-Cov- virus to the laboratories and Microbiology services of Madrid's third-level public hospitals such as: the Gregorio Marañón University Hospital or La Paz. The Microbiology services of Gregorio Marañón or La Paz have to assume the extra effort of processing samples to detect the Sars-Cov- virus charged by the private company The aforementioned company sends a good number of the samples that Ribera Salud would have to process, to public hospitals, from the Infanta Sofía hospitals in San Sebastián de los Reyes.

Where the privatized laboratory facilities are located -, the Infanta Cristina hospitals in Parla, of Infanta Leonor de Vallecas and their respective areas of influence in Primary AOL Email List Care . The other three hospitals that depend on this laboratory are the Hospital del Tajo, in Aranjuez; the Sureste Hospital, in Arganda; and the Henares Hospital, in Coslada. CCOO Sanidad Madrid denounces that Ribera Salud, which obtained this contract from the Ministry of Health for a financial amount of ,, million euros , for four years, “does not have the capacity to process all the samples and does not have enough personnel to meet current demand. “Instead of hiring more staff and increasing its resources, it is entrusted to public hospitals whose Microbiology services are already saturated.



The pandemic and with their staff exhausted and under minimum. We wonder if they are going to pay the cost of the tests that they do not carry out to the public coffers.” Hundreds of samples The Central Clinical Analysis Laboratory has a staff of more than professionals and, together with five other peripheral laboratories, covers the analyzes of more than million citizens. According to the data available to CCOO, in recent weeks the Infanta Leonor de Vallecas Hospital has had to send an average of PCR samples daily to the Gregorio Marañón Hospital because the central laboratory is not capable of processing them, with the consequent organizational chaos and delays in the results that this entails. From Primary Care and the random screenings carried out, more than , samples that had to be processed by the Central Laboratory have also been sent to Gregorio Marañón. Ribera Salud has not added a single reinforcement.