KUALA LUMPUR, April 8 – Batu Gajah Hospital is the primary public facility in Perak to offer therapy and rehabilitation for lengthy Covid sufferers in a ward that formally opened on January 1 this yr.
Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, throughout a working go to to Batu Gajah Hospital final Tuesday, stated the Ministry of Health (MOH) facility’s lengthy Covid and rehabilitation ward was created underneath the Ipoh Hospital cluster.
He stated the ward was initially a rehab ward that has been working since 2012. Last yr, the ward in Batu Gajah Hospital was used as an extra Covid-19 ward with a capability of twenty-two beds.
“In January 2022, with the cooperation of the Perak state health department and the Ipoh cluster, this ward was turned into a Long Covid and Rehabilitation Ward with the capacity of 16 beds,” Khairy stated in an announcement.
“This initiative is aimed at helping long Covid patients who need rehabilitation to return to normal life.”
Batu Gajah Hospital stated individually that its lengthy Covid ward goals to implement individualised measures for focused sufferers, with the potential to minimise the lack of capabilities, to revive capabilities, and to compensate for the lack of capabilities in lengthy Covid sufferers.
“The management of these patients comprises physiotherapy, oxygen therapy, health education, mental health, and psychosocial support with other multidisciplinary approaches,” stated Batu Gajah Hospital.
Khairy told the Dewan Negara recently that as of final February, 25,122 Covid-19 sufferers have been given follow-up therapy appointments for persistent signs after their discharge from hospital for his or her acute situations.
According to the well being minister, most lengthy Covid sufferers in Malaysia skilled lethargy, at 75.1 per cent. This is adopted by shortness of breath when performing sure actions at 63.1 per cent, cough (14 per cent), problem sleeping (8.6 per cent), and nervousness (3.8 per cent).
A University of Malaya study discovered that ladies had a 58 per cent increased probability of experiencing lengthy Covid than males.
The native analysis additionally discovered that these with out signs or with delicate signs reported experiencing lengthy Covid (10 per cent and 17.5 per cent respectively), in comparison with these within the reasonable (26.7 per cent) and extreme (30.4 per cent) classes.
Most long Covid treatment programmes are currently concentrated in the Klang Valley, equivalent to college hospitals University of Malaya Medical Centre and Universiti Teknologi Mara Medical Centre; MOH services Cheras Rehabilitation Hospital, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, and Sungai Buloh Hospital; in addition to personal services equivalent to ReGen Hospital, Daehan Sunway, Prince Court and others.
Sunway Medical Centre additionally plans to determine a post-Covid restoration clinic.
