The long Covid continues to haunt between 10 and 20% of Sardinian patients even after the recovery. Thus, we return to knocking on hospital doors also for the problems related to the after-effects of the virus. And healthcare continues to show the usual problems: lack of beds, organizational difficulties, difficulties in reconciling the paths of Covid patients with non-Covid ones.
The complaint is from Fadoi , the Federation of hospital internists in Congress in Rome.
IN THE ISLAND - In Sardinia - according to the report - the long Covid affects more than one in ten patients. The most common symptoms remain that of chronic fatigue and difficulty in breathing . The average age of the cases is between 30 and 60 years.
It should be noted - explains Fadoi - how with the Omicron variant the percentage of long Covid patients has remained substantially unchanged while the resurgence of some infectious diseases has slightly increased compared to the pre-pandemic.
"A conversion is underway - explains Carlo Usai, Fadoi regional president and medical director of the Medical Unit of the Sassari hospital - of the Covid wards into non-Covid wards, there is still a shortage of beds in the medical area for patients non-Covid; the current prospect is to recover the services lost in the winter period between hospitalizations and outpatient services, possible reshaping of Covid beds in the event of new recrudescences in the autumn period ".
(Unioneonline / vl)
