The platform for monitoring patients suffering from long Covid will be planned before the end of the year. Parliament had definitively adopted the UDI bill on January 13, 2022, by a vote of the Senate. The implementing decrees have not yet been published. The platform will be used to better care for people suffering from the disease.
The “Covid long” affected 4% of adults in France, or 2.06 million people, a small proportion (1.2%) declaring themselves very embarrassed in their daily activities, according to a study by Public Health France carried out at l fall 2022.
The platform will allow people to be better informed, better followed
“The implementation of this platform should happen before the end of the year” and “will allow people to be better informed, better followed and to know near them what the possibilities of care are”, has said Renaissance MP Stéphanie Rist, also general rapporteur of the Social Affairs Committee, on franceinfo.
“But, already, there may be recognition of long-term illness for certain long Covids or occupational disease management. There is no need to wait for these decrees, ”said the elected representative of Loiret and doctor. The care of patients with long Covid can go through the attending physician, she noted.
“Long Covid patients must not be forgotten by the crisis”
“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 regularly,” said Stéphanie Rist.
The High Authority for Health must also “soon publish a care guide”, according to her, “research continues”, she observed. “Long Covid patients must not be forgotten by the crisis”, judged the deputy. But “in the field, we still have great difficulty in recognition, there are still many doctors who do not know what long Covid is, who do not believe their patients”, lamented the president of the association. of patients “After D20”, Pauline Oustric, at the microphone of franceinfo. His association wants “homogenized recognition in occupational disease” and facilitated.