The laboratory is responsible for giving false results on the cancer screening examination

Irregularities alleged in The results of cervical smears in the city of Pelotas will be the subject of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio Grande do Sul. The complaint is that the institution responsible for the preventive examinations would perform the results by sampling instead of Bom Jesus sent a memorandum to the Pelotas Municipal Health Department, stating that a patient performed two samples of the examination at UBS Bom Jesus in the years 2015 and 2017 and the results did not show any change, but the doctor referred the woman to the specialized center and a gynecologist diagnosed a "vegetative lesion in the cervix of the uterus ". More: WhatsApp publishes the "Gossipy" feature for all users The Pelotas Municipal Health Secretariat released a note last Friday (13) citing that in May of last year the health surveillance team monitored the laboratory. Regarding the case cited in the memorandum, the Secretariat informed that "after receiving the memorandum, the monitoring carried out other inspections and asked the laboratory for internal quality control reports."