The unit to treat patients with persistent covid will start operating at the end of this year. It will be located at the Grande Covián Specialty Medical Center in Zaragoza and will be a reference for all of Aragon. It will be made up of several professionals with different profiles.
Specifically, you will have a specialist in internal medicine and a nursing professional as a case manager, who will be the backbone of this unit. It will also have a physiotherapist, psychologist and a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
According to the case monitoring carried out in Primary Care, in Aragon there are about 2,000 people who are considered active patients with a diagnosis of persistent covid or sequelae.
The general director of Health Assistance and Planning of the Department of Health of the Government of Aragon, Ramón Boria, has highlighted the importance of Primary Care in the follow-up of these patients and has stressed that all people “receive the necessary assistance.”
He added that the creation of the new unit will serve as support to care for those suffering from persistent covid, offering them, among other things, rehabilitative and psychological intervention.
The general director made this statement on the occasion of his participation in the inauguration, this Friday, October 25, of the ‘Persistent Covid‘ Conference: beyond the respiratory virus‘, organized by the San Jorge University and the Long Covid Aragón Association, at the headquarters of the San Valero Group in Zaragoza.
Ramón Boria has recalled that Aragón has two multicenter studies that have allowed us to know the characteristics of these people and identify the most important health problems, “which now allow us to define the characteristics that care for these patients should have in the new unit.”
