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The federal, state and social security agencies have adopted recommendations for the care of people with “Long Covid”. As the Ministry of Health announced on Saturday, a corresponding decision was made in the Federal Target Control Commission. The aim is to ensure uniform medical care for people with “Long Covid” throughout Austria.
For are all areas relevant to care from primary care or general practitioners to rehabilitation included, it said. Health Minister Werner Mückstein (Greens) proposes the decision as an “important step”. As a doctor and health minister, he takes “Long Covid” very seriously and wants to create awareness for it. To this end, he is in close contact with all relevant stakeholders, said Mückstein.
According to the Ministry of Health, around ten to 14 percent of cases after an acute Covid 19 illness lead to long-term complaints or long-term consequences. The symptoms are very heterogeneous and have different degrees of severity. Die from “Long Covid”, occasional people can persist for a long time, i.e. more than four weeks after the start of the infection, from physical symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, odor and taste disorders, hypertension and incomplete resilience or from psychological complaints such as cognitive disorders , Suffer from depression and anxiety, it said.