Angry That The Patient's PCR Results Were Not Entered Into The NAR System, Minister Of Health, Budi Threatens To Revoke The Laboratory Permit

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin (Photo; DOK ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has instructed the revocation of operational permits for any COVID-19 testing laboratory that does not enter consumer RT-PCR results into the New All Record (NAR) system.

"This must be disciplined. If there is such a thing, it must be immediately reprimanded. We found cases where there were patients who complained of pain, but which laboratory tests were not reported, and they were not in PeduliLindungi," said Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a written statement received in Jakarta, Between, Monday, July 11th.

Budi said the Ministry of Health would send a letter of instruction to all PCR examination laboratory managers who received permission from the Ministry of Health to enter their examination data into the NAR.

"If we find that they have not submitted the results of the PCR test, we will freeze the permit. And if they still do not comply, we will revoke the operational permit. The laboratory is obliged to enter the data of all people who were tested by PCR," he said.

The instructions came after reports of many people doing PCR tests, but they didn't want the results to be listed in the PeduliLindung application.

The patient asked the examination laboratory staff not to report the results to the Ministry of Health's NAR system so that the results do not appear in PeduliLindungi.

Patients with positive PCR results at PeduliLindung will be labeled black, so patients cannot enter malls, offices, hotels and also public transportation to prevent them from transmitting the virus to others.

Starting today, the Ministry of Health will closely monitor all laboratories that do not include PCR test results in the NAR.