Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 10th. Question: my country strengthens the supervision of the whole chain to ensure the high-quality development of normalized nucleic acid testing
Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Tiancheng
At present, many cities and regions in China are exploring the implementation of normalized nucleic acid testing, and some provincial capital cities and cities with a population of 10 million are establishing nucleic acid sampling circles with a 15-minute walk.
To help normalized nucleic acid testing better serve the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control, supervision is particularly important. On the 9th, the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism press conference pointed out that it is necessary to further strengthen the supervision of the whole chain of new coronavirus nucleic acid detection.
Daily supervision is not relaxed
Guo Yanhong, the supervisory commissioner of the National Health Commission’s Medical Administration and Hospital Administration Bureau, said at the press conference that recently, the comprehensive team of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council has strengthened the management of testing institutions and personnel qualifications, strengthened the daily supervision of nucleic acid testing institutions, and strengthened nucleic acid testing institutions in emergency situations. In terms of supervision and other aspects, strengthen the supervision of the whole chain of nucleic acid detection of the new coronavirus.
The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on nucleic acid testing and epidemic prevention and control (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Yuwei)
According to a report from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Department, since May, three nucleic acid testing institutions in Beijing have been placed on file for investigation by the police due to violations of laws and regulations, drawing attention from all walks of life.
Li Ang, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, introduced that the above-mentioned nucleic acid testing institutions have always adhered to “zero tolerance” for violations of laws and regulations, and they will be found and investigated. The institution involved has been suspended from practice, and the illegal behavior of the relevant personnel has been handed over to the public security organ for investigation.
In terms of strengthening the daily supervision of nucleic acid testing institutions, since the current round of the epidemic in Beijing, the Beijing Municipal Health and Health Commission has organized several rounds of unannounced inspections for laboratory quality and safety, especially whether the laboratory has issued false reports and conducted multi-tube mixed inspections in violation of regulations. and other issues to focus on checking. In the past two weeks, the Beijing Municipal Health Administration has conducted a total of 622 inspections of third-party testing laboratories. If a problem is found, it will revoke the medical institution’s practice license, cancel the qualification for nucleic acid testing, suspend services for rectification and other measures according to the severity of the problem, and report it to the public in a timely manner.
Emergency state dispatched quality supervisor laboratory video monitoring
The normalization of nucleic acid testing is to detect the epidemic earlier. Guo Yanhong said that in the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, port cities, provincial capital cities and cities with a population of 10 million, due to the relatively high risk of epidemic importation, establish a nucleic acid sampling circle of 15 minutes on foot in these cities, which is conducive to earlier detection of potential risks and better detection. Implement prevention and control measures quickly.
On June 7, at the test center of No. 4 Middle School in Songshan District, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, staff checked candidates’ health codes and nucleic acid test reports. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Behe)
How to strengthen the supervision of nucleic acid testing institutions in an emergency if a clustered epidemic is found in the normalized nucleic acid detection work, triggering epidemic monitoring and early warning?
The “Notice on Further Strengthening the Supervision of the Whole Chain of New Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Testing” issued by the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council on the 1st clarifies that in the process of large-scale nucleic acid testing in the event of a clustered epidemic, the health and health administrative department shall report to each company that undertakes the testing task. The medical testing laboratory dispatches clinical testing experts as quality supervisors to supervise the whole process. Medical testing laboratories undertaking testing tasks should install video surveillance equipment to record the whole process of key links such as sample addition, nucleic acid extraction and amplification, and reporting, and keep image data for at least one month for future reference.
Institutional Qualification Strong Management Strict Approval, Red Light Exit
In the whole chain of nucleic acid testing, as long as there is a flaw in one link, it may affect the quality and cause the risk of further spread of the epidemic. Strict management of testing institutions and personnel qualifications is an important prerequisite for ensuring the quality of normalized nucleic acid testing.
The notice makes it clear that all localities must strictly examine and approve testing institutions and personnel. Those who undertake large-scale nucleic acid testing tasks shall comply with the management regulations of large-scale nucleic acid testing laboratories, have not been subject to administrative penalties in the past two years, and have passed the last two inter-laboratory quality assessment results at or above the provincial level.
“For nucleic acid testing institutions, we have established a ‘traffic light’ system.” Guo Yanhong said that while conducting green light approvals for qualified entities that have entered in accordance with the law, we will resolutely implement the yellow light rectification mechanism and the red light exit mechanism, and increase the intensity of supervision. Ensure the quality of nucleic acid testing.
According to reports, in terms of examination and approval, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council has required local health administrative departments to supervise the entry of each medical and health institution that conducts nucleic acid testing, strictly manage the examination and approval of testing qualifications, and ensure that testing institutions, laboratories and All personnel are legally qualified.
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