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ahimsa @ahimsa_pdx

"One in five doctors with long COVID forced to stop working or cut back hours"

"A GP has told Sky News how she lost her job and thought she was going to lose her house after the condition caused her to take six months off work."

https://news.sky.com/story/one-in-five-doctors-forced-to-stop-working-or-cut-back-hours-due-to-long-covid-12914407

Doctors who contracted COVID-19 on the frontline and are still living with the ongoing symptoms of the virus have been left in financial limbo as they struggle to return to work.

The British Medical Association (BMA) found one in five doctors with long COVID had been forced to stop work or significantly cut back on their hours.

#COVID #LongCovid #Health

ahimsa @ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social

Here's a link with more info about the recent BMA (British Medical Association) survey of doctors with Long Covid:

https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/first-major-survey-of-doctors-with-long-covid-reveals-debilitating-impact-on-health-life-and-work-and-wider-implications-for-workforce-and-health-services

Screenshot of "key findings" bullet points, taken from the website linked in the post.

"- Doctors reported a wide range of symptoms, including fatigue, headaches, muscular pain, nerve damage, joint pain, ongoing respiratory problems and many more.
- Around 60% of doctors told the BMA that post-acute Covid ill health has impacted on their ability to carry out day-to-day activities on a regular basis;
- Almost one in five respondents (18%) reported that they were now unable to work due to their post-acute Covid ill-health;
- Less than one in three (31%) doctors said they were working full-time, compared to more than half (57%) before the onset of their illness;
- Nearly half (48%) said they have experienced some form of loss of earnings as a result of post-acute Covid;
- 54% of respondents acquired Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, and 77% of these believed that they contracted Covid -19 in the workplace;
- A small minority of doctors had access to respiratory protective equipment (RPE) around the time that they contracted Covid-19, with only 11% having access to an FFP2 respirator and 16% an FFP3 respirator;
- More than 65% of doctors responding said their post-acute Covid symptoms had not been investigated thoroughly and effectively by an NHS long Covid clinic or centre. And almost half of doctors reported not even being referred to an NHS long Covid clinic at all."

#COVID #LongCovid #Doctors

Jul 04, 2023, 08:06 PM··Web

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