CONTRARY to claims of Sen. Richard Gordon, the Department of Health (DOH) said accredited laboratories have the responsibility to inform their patients of the results of their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests.
In a statement, the DOH said laboratories should directly go to their patients and bare the results of tests conducted on them and not wait for the national government to do so.
“In any given setting, the responsibility of informing tested individuals or their physicians of test results falls with the laboratories,” it added.
This, it stressed, means that there is no need to ask permission from the DOH to release results to patients as long as they abide with the requirements stipulated in existing department issuances on the matter.
