The Ministry of Health launched this Thursday, March 17, a roadmap on the long Covid, which still remains a medical mystery.
- The long covid would affect around 700,000 French people.
- 25% have symptoms beyond one month, and 10% beyond three months.
Yesterday Thursday March 17, the cabinet of the Minister of Health Oliver Véran unveiled a new roadmap to fight against Covid Long. It is based on three areas: improving patient care, better understanding the disease and making information more accessible to doctors and patients.
Care networks throughout the territory
To better care for the sick, twenty million euros will be released in order to develop and structure care networks throughout the territory. This amount, “very flexible”, will be financed by the regional investment fund (FIR).
In order to make information more accessible to doctors and patients, the Government also plans to launch a new communication campaign. The idea is also to improve training in this new pathology, allowing patients and healthcare professionals to be “co-actor in the care pathways”.
Finally, ten million euros will be invested in research. A digital platform intended to refer patients, accessible to doctors and patients, will in this sense pilot new post-Covid coordination cells.
A medical mystery
“The sharing of information on an international scale will be essential. Work is already underway at the French level and at the level of the World Health Organization (WHO)”, added the office of the Minister of Health.
The long covid remains, even today, a medical mystery. Its symptoms are multiple and vary from one person to another: intense fatigue, heart problems, difficulty concentrating, dysfunction of the neurological system, loss of memory or even dizziness and ringing in the ears. “We can consider that we have long Covid when we exceed three months of symptoms”, specifies the office of the Minister of Health.
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