Faced with the very strong demand for PCR tests, the Maymat laboratory opened, since yesterday, a covid room, a dedicated space for samples, at the Saint-Jacques center. Objective for the laboratory: that the test takes place under the best conditions for both patients and healthcare professionals.
Two secretaries and two nurses await the public in a 500 m2 room (the former analysis laboratory of Gérard Palais, head of the Maymat laboratory in Montluçon).
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150 tests carried out every day
The tests are accessible without a prescription and open to everyone: symptomatic, asymptomatic, contact cases, regardless of age.
For the moment two nurses are taking samples but their number can rise to three.
We perform 150 PCR tests every day. We were under pressure because the telephone switchboard was saturated because of the appointments made. You should know that obtaining information for PCR tests takes a good five minutes each time. When you multiply that by 150, it’s not sustainable. Afterwards, people had to wait in the street, sometimes in the cold or in the rain. These were not acceptable conditions.
Gérard Palais (head of the Maymat laboratory in Montluçon)
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More serene patient management
With Yohann Labrousse, pharmacist biologist at the Montluçon laboratory, and Dominique Maymat, president of the Independent biologists network (LBI) to which the Maymat laboratories belong
he notes that the walk-in tests make it possible to manage the flow of patients in a more serene manner.
“We had this project since mid-October when the situation became difficult to sustain. As people don’t have dates, their arrivals are more spread out. Before, we grouped together appointments with patients every five minutes, ”adds Yohann Labrousse.
In case of crowds, around thirty people can wait in the premises while respecting a distance of one meter. A circuit has been set up so that patients do not cross paths.
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Very secure analysis conditions
Two sampling tents have been set up but, if necessary, a third can be set up.
The samples are analyzed at Moulins.
Every two hours, the samples are sent to the Maymat laboratory in Moulins. Dominique Maymat highlights the very secure conditions in which the analyzes take place.
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The samples are only opened under the hood of our bacteriology laboratory. We work with the departmental analysis laboratory which has greater analytical capacities than us because they are used to working on herds. Where we can analyze twelve samples at the same time, they can analyze a hundred
D + 1 results
Patients receive their results by email on D + 1, or on D + 2 when checks must be carried out. If they are positive, the laboratory calls them to give them the instructions to follow and the procedures to follow. The results are given every day, Sunday and holidays included. “It’s possible thanks to the involvement of our teams,” insists Dominique Maymat.
The laboratory notes that of the number of tests carried out daily, 30% were positive at the end of October early November.
A much stronger second wave
The three pharmacist biologists were in the front row to measure how much the second wave was more important than the first. “On the tests that we carry out daily, each time we had about fifty positive ones over the period from the end of October to the beginning of November,” notes Yohann Labrousse. “This is why it is very important to continue to respect barrier gestures,” adds Dominique Maymat.
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The Maymat laboratory group has twelve laboratories in all, eight of which are in the Allier region.
The covid room is open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 4 pm and Saturday from 9 am to 12.30 pm It is located in the Saint-Jacques center (rear Carrefour car park), entrance A next to the Medeo medical center. Patients must have their vital card. The test is not free but fully covered by the CPAM.
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