The government of Rio de Janeiro will open, today (23) in the afternoon, another post for the diagnosis of monkeypox. It will be in São Gonçalo, in the metropolitan region, and will work from Monday to Friday, in the annex of the Emergency Care Unit (UPA) in the Columbandê neighborhood. The Health Department warned that there is no clinical care there.
He added that the collection of material at the posts will be carried out only in patients referred by public health units, after carrying out a clinical examination that indicates the suspicion of contamination.
“The referral needs to be done by a unit of the public network so that suspected cases can be notified and properly monitored by municipal and state surveillance”, he explained.
The samples will be received by the Noel Nutels Central Laboratory (Lacen-RJ), in downtown Rio, and sent for analysis in laboratories referenced by the Ministry of Health in the state of Rio.
“After attending the collection points in the state, the patient must return to the health unit where he received medical care to know the test result”, announced the Health Department.
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Last Friday (19), the secretariat opened the first collection point for material for testing suspected cases of the disease at the Institute of Assistance to Servers of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in Maracanã, in the north of the city.
She promised still for this week the opening of the third post. It will work at the Vasco Barcelos Health Center, in Nova Iguaçu, in Baixada Fluminense. According to the secretary, the unit will be a reference to serve the municipalities in the region that do not have a collection service.
The planning also includes the opening of a fourth post, now at the Center for Combating and Studying Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in Cidade Universitária, in the north zone.
