KUALA LUMPUR – 2,712 Covid-19 patients who experienced long-term complications known as the long Covid have been referred to the Covid-19 Rehabilitation Outpatient Specialised Service (CROSS) in the Sungai Buloh Hospital.
According to the Director-General of Health, Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, from that amount, 984 cases (36.3%) have fully recovered from the symptoms, meanwhile, 1,715 cases (63.2%) are still experiencing continuous symptoms. 13 cases have ended with death.
However, based on the medical record, the 13 death cases had other comorbidity factors involving cancer, kidney failure, heart attack, septicemia and lungs infection.
“Besides that, analysis on the database also found that 97.5 percent from the 2,324 patients who had gone for the assessment 12 weeks after their Covid-19 infection were patients who had serious Covid-19 symptoms under Category 4 and 5.
“Assessment after 12 weeks on the 2,324 cases found that 914 cases (39.4%) had fully recover from their symptoms and 1,410 cases (60.6%) were still experiencing continuous symptoms, where most of them reported having more than one symptom,” he said in a statement.
Elaborating further, Noor Hisham said that the top five symptoms reported by the patients were fatigue (71.8%), difficulty in breathing while doing activities (61.9%), cough (13.6%), pain (13.2%) and trouble sleeping (11%).
“Indirectly, it would affect the quality of life after the Covid-19 infection. Besides that, long Covid also caused serious implications such as the increment of morbidity, disability, reduced productivity and loss of income.
“The socio-economic burdens not only impacted the long Covid patients but they can also be felt by their family members, community and country,” he said.
Meanwhile, as of 30 October, 5,193 patients had gone for treatment and rehabilitation programme to overcome the long Covid symptoms nationwide. -MalaysiaGazette
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