Weeks after the alleged restriction by the administration, private diagnostic laboratories in Uttar Pradesh have started again to run Covid-19 tests at full capacity and without restrictions.
A few weeks ago when the The daily number of Covid-19 cases in the state had exceeded Several private pathology laboratories reportedly received 30,000 calls from the administration asking them to reduce the number of Covid tests they were doing. They were asked to limit home specimen collection and fewer RT-PCR tests from people who came to the labs for testing.
Because of this pressure, many popular path labs stopped performing tests, to the horror of citizens.
Unofficial orders from the administration
Some laboratories continued to send their laboratory technicians home unofficially to collect samples, despite the administration’s “unofficial” order.
A sample collector at a famous private diagnostic laboratory told India Today on condition of anonymity: “We were not allowed to collect samples. Despite numerous calls from citizens, we were asked not to do many tests.”
“During this time, the government was overloaded with a large number of samples. We were told that due to over-testing by private pathologies, they were unable to provide test results on time,” he added.
Government hides real case list?
Another lab technician, on condition of anonymity, told India Today that all of this was done to hide the top of Covid cases in the state.
“No other logic makes sense – that was the only reason. We did a lot of tests on our personal capacity even though the administration gave us a red signal,” he said.
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Though Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath recommended further testing In his public speeches, the laboratories received “unofficial” instructions from the administration to reduce the number of tests they carried out. This had confused her.
During this time, some laboratories stopped collecting at home but tested at their centers. Now labs like Dr. Lal PathLabs and SRL Diagnostics also resumed sampling at home.
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