The companies Analiza and Laboratorio Centro de Diagnostic have this method available to the public
Among the five private laboratories that the Ministry of Health has granted certification for performing the PCR-RT test for COVID-19 detection, there are two that have self-service, a very comfortable way for people who come to do the screening, because they should not get out of the vehicle to make a nasopharyngeal swab.
These companies are the Diagnostic Center Laboratory (Fuentes Beethoven branch) and the Analysis Laboratory (Jerusalem Boulevard), which serve hundreds of Salvadorans every day. The other three also do the polymerase chain reaction test (RT-PCR), but people arriving with the vehicle must park the vehicle and then continue the tests inside the laboratories.
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Blanca Oliva, the general director of the Laboratory of the Diagnostic Center, explained that she participates in the scheduled appointment, with half-hour spaces, appointments that can be made in person or by phone, between 6:00 and 18:00 and when they do the test is from 6:00 to 11:30 “We do not participate in the order of arrival, but by appointment, in order to avoid traffic in the area,” explained the manager, who recommends customers to make your appointment three days in advance.
The PCR-RT test performed inside the vehicle, in self-service mode, is very convenient for people who want to know if they are infected. In the Diagnostic Center Laboratory and in the Analysis Laboratory, its employees operate with all security measures. / Photo EDH Archive
The Laboratory of the Diagnostic Center explains on its Facebook page that it is the only one that performs the test in a 100% automated way, which “eliminates human errors and allows us to provide you with reliable results on the same day”, he details in his information. .
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An important clarification in both companies is that people arriving by motorcycle cannot be given a nasopharyngeal swab on the vehicle, so they have to park and enter a cabin to take the sample.
Ramón Germay Barrallaga, manager of Laboratorio Analiza, explained that the company serves with the tests between 5:30 and 17:00, adding that it intends to extend the service not only to the branch on Jerusalem Boulevard (operating since August), but in a month two more will open, both in the Medical Colony and in Santa Ana.