As the complications post COVID-19 infections are seeing an increased prevalence in the city, hospitals are reporting many cases of long-term after-effects. Even those deemed to have mild infection seem to suffer from prolonged health issues, even beyond 12 weeks of getting affected. In the context, the Kauvery Hospitals launched post-COVID-19 wellness clinics.
Chennai: Several patients with comorbidities and chronic illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart, lung, kidney, intestinal and liver diseases are seeing more complications, irrespective of age and gender. Even the patients who turn negative for COVID and are not very critical report organ dysfunction and take days to stabilise, impairing their routine activities.
The post-COVID wellness clinics are designed to address these issues and have been launched across all the hospitals and health centres of Kauvery Hospital in the State.
“Post-COVID health issues are seen even in patients with no lung involvement. COVID infection can have lasting impact on almost any organ in our body, from brain to heart to legs. Therefore, it becomes important to ascertain the exact problem and rectify it. Often control of pre-existing chronic illnesses which went off the rails need to be stabilised to decrease the long-term side effects,” said Dr Manivannan, Managing Director, Kauvery Group of Hospitals.
Doctors say that patients suffer from non-specific symptoms post-recovery such as fatigue, breathlessness, palpitations, dizziness, loss of balance, foggy minds, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, joint pain, insomnia, impaired memory, anxiety and depression. Many other patients see complications such as heart attack and stroke, while bleeding and clotting issues become quite common. Bacterial and fungal infections seem to present in uncommon sites with unexpected severity.
A lot of patients have been reporting post-COVID mental and physical illnesses. The governments and health authorities have been launching massive outreach and support programmes.
The post-COVID wellness clinics are designed to address these issues and have been launched across all the hospitals and health centres of Kauvery Hospital in the State.
“Post-COVID health issues are seen even in patients with no lung involvement. COVID infection can have lasting impact on almost any organ in our body, from brain to heart to legs. Therefore, it becomes important to ascertain the exact problem and rectify it. Often control of pre-existing chronic illnesses which went off the rails need to be stabilised to decrease the long-term side effects,” said Dr Manivannan, Managing Director, Kauvery Group of Hospitals.
Doctors say that patients suffer from non-specific symptoms post-recovery such as fatigue, breathlessness, palpitations, dizziness, loss of balance, foggy minds, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, joint pain, insomnia, impaired memory, anxiety and depression. Many other patients see complications such as heart attack and stroke, while bleeding and clotting issues become quite common. Bacterial and fungal infections seem to present in uncommon sites with unexpected severity.
A lot of patients have been reporting post-COVID mental and physical illnesses. The governments and health authorities have been launching massive outreach and support programmes.
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