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07/04/2016
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From next Wednesday (6), health plans will have to compulsorily cover three exams detection of Zika virus. The procedures should be available for pregnant women, babies born to mothers with virus infection diagnosis and newborns with congenital malformations suggestive of infection zika.
The choice of these groups took into account the risk of babies being born with microcephaly due to infection of pregnant virus during pregnancy. The microcephaly is an irreversible malformation that may affect the child's development in many ways.
The standard of the National Health Agency (ANS) provides that the plans have to offer PCR, indicated for the detection of the virus in the early days of the disease; IgM serology test that identifies antibodies in the bloodstream; and IgG, to verify that the person had contact with zika at some point in life.
Normally, the NSA review every two years the list of procedures required to be covered by health plans. The last revision took effect in January this year. However, in the case of diagnostic examination of Zika virus, the incorporation of laboratory tests occurred in an extraordinary way, according to the regulator, because it is a public health emergency decreed by the World Health Organization.
Health plans have 30 days to suit the new rule.
Source: EBC
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