It should see the light of day by the end of 2023. It is a brand new platform for identifying and caring for people affected by a “Covid-long”.
This was announced by Stéphanie Rist, doctor and Renaissance deputy for Loiret, during her intervention on France Info this Tuesday, August 29.
Parliament definitively adopted on January 13, 2022, by a vote of the Senate, a UDI bill to create a specific monitoring platform for patients with long Covid. The implementing decrees have not yet been published.
What is this new platform?
“The implementation of this platform should happen before the end of the year” et “will allow people to be better informed, better followed and to know near their home what the possibilities of care are”said the MP, also general rapporteur of the Social Affairs Committee, on franceinfo.
“It is important to already take into account medically these long Covids, these are symptoms that are not very specific (fatigue, joint pain, etc.) to a disease but which lead to a very significant incapacity in life. As a rheumatologist, I see him regularlypointed out Stéphanie Rist.
Insufficient support
The “Long Covid” affected 4% of adults in France, or 2.06 million people, a small proportion (1.2%) declaring themselves severely embarrassed in their daily activities, according to a study by Public Health France carried out at the fall 2022.
“But, already, there may be recognition of long-term illness for certain long Covids or management of occupational disease. There is no need to wait for these decrees”said the elected Loiret and doctor.
Efforts that do not seem to be enough for Pauline Oustric, the president of the association of patients “After J20”, who was also at the microphone of France Info: But “in the field, we still have great difficulty in recognition, there are still many doctors who do not know what the long Covid is, who do not believe their patients”.
His association wishes “recognition as a homogenized occupational disease” and facilitated.
The majority of them agree that the care of these patients is far from sufficient in relation to the inconvenience caused by the long Covid.
The “Covid long”: what is it?
“It’s hard to diagnose” acknowledges the deputy. She explains that “fatigue can be linked to many other reasons, such as joint pain”but admits that “These diagnoses are important, for financial recognition and for the medical care of patients”.
