COVID-19 RESULTS MIX-UP

MBABANE – A mix-up of results of two COVID-19 patients has resulted in one of them not being registered for care.

The patient has reportedly not been pending registered since June 1, 2020 after the Ministry of Health had reported two cases from the Manzini Region the previous day.
She  is one of two females aged 31 and 42 who tested positive for COVID-19. One of them presented with mild symptoms of the virus while the other was asymptomatic.
When questioned about the pending case, the Minister of Health, Lizzie Nkosi, said the results came with wrong information hence the patient could not be taken in.
Explaining further, she said the patient’s name was correctly attached to the results, but the surname was not known to the patient.

“The results were run through a private institution, but were later reported back to us. When the results came back, there was an element of doubt following the contradicting information hence having to retest,” she said.  Nkosi said the patient’s whereabouts were known, but there was a need to verify if the results belonged to her, hence she could not be registered for care.

The incident comes after another where health workers, who had been tested for the coronavirus, questioned the authenticity of their results after discrepancies were noted.
It was said the results reflected their names and personal identity numbers (PINs) while the places where the tests were conducted were incorrect and so were their residential locations.

The incorrect information captured in the results raised red flags and allegations that there was a high probability that some patients had been given wrong results.
In the recent incident, as the results were published on social media pages, the public raised concerns on the reasons the patient was not registered as they recalled that a patient once went missing last month while government was preparing to register him for care. The patient was eventually traced to South Africa with the assistance of his family where he had reported for work.
He was brought back into the country and registered to a health facility to start treatment.

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