As time goes by, information is added that is not
encouraging and that is far from offering positive alternatives for people who
leave hospitals after defeating the Coronavirus.
Now there is talk of the footprints that patients discharged
from hospitals take home.
Hundreds of thousands of severely ill coronavirus patients
who survive and are discharged from hospitals are facing a new and complicated
challenge: recovery. Many are struggling to overcome a variety of disturbing
residual symptoms, and some problems could linger for months, years, or even
the rest of their lives.
Patients who have returned home after being hospitalized for
severe respiratory failure from the virus are dealing with physical,
neurological, cognitive and emotional problems.
In addition, they must live their recovery process while the
pandemic continues, with all the stress and the shortage of resources that it
has caused.
Patients may still
leave the hospital with scars, injuries, or inflammation in the lungs, heart,
kidneys, liver, or other organs that have not finished healing. This can cause
various problems such as metabolic and urinary complications, among others.
Zijian Chen, medical director of the new Post-COVID-19 Care
Center of the Monte Sinai Health System, commented that the most important
physical problem seen in the center was difficulty in breathing, which may be
due to damage to the lungs or heart, or a clotting problem.

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