His new information campaign has started Ministry of Healthwith the aim of informing the public about the syndrome Long Covidits effects, but also the ways of protection, with the primary being the coronavirus vaccination.
The syndrome Long Covid characterized as the greatest risk to public health after acute coronavirus infection. According to international studies, about 30% of coronavirus patients will be affected by Long Covid syndrome, while one in five will show severe residual damage to vital organs such as the lungs, heart, liver and others. While the most worrying is that the disease affects not only adults but also children. The Long Covid has a particularly negative effect on the quality of life of children as it prevents them from participating in school and extracurricular activities, with significant negative effects on their socialization and psychology.
Having as its central message “the best protection against the syndrome Long Covid is the vaccination “, the information campaign of the Ministry of Health is addressed, first of all, to the young ages, children and pregnant women, with the aim of further increasing the vaccination rates, especially at this time, when the acute phase of the pandemic is receding and the key concern focuses on the long-term effects on public health. It also aims to raise awareness of citizens who have not been vaccinated or have not yet received the third dose.
The information campaign consists of short video-personal testimonies, through which patients with Long Covid share the dramatic effects on their daily lives:
• 45-year-old Stelios, who had not had time to be vaccinated, saw his fingers deformed… Today, he finds it difficult to hug his children.
• 35-year-old Anna saw her -4.5-year-old daughter get sick with her. Now, the mom gets tired as soon as she gets up and the daughter needs a lot of breaks in whatever she does.
• 59-year-old Julia, 730 days now, suffers from shortness of breath, tachycardia, daily fever.
In Greece, only in 2021, they were infected with coronavirus 2,898 pregnant women and midwives, of whom he had just been vaccinated 7.7%. 226 of them had to be treated in a single COVID-19 bed, compared to only 5 who had been vaccinated, while 36 had been admitted to the ICU and 5 had died, compared to none of the vaccinated group.
The Minister of Health, Mr. Athanasios Plevrisin a statement stated that: “The best protection against the syndrome Long Covid is vaccination. As the acute phase of the pandemic subsides – and in order to continue to protect public health – we must turn our attention to vulnerable groups of young people, children and pregnant women. Coronavirus vaccination reduces up to 50% the possibility of symptoms Long Covidand, is the best and most effective means of shielding public health as a whole.
More information on the website of the Hellenic Union of people suffering from the long-term consequences of Covid-19: https://longcovidgreece.gr/
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