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One of our readers, who prefers to remain anonymous, wrote to tell us the story of his mother, recovered from Covid but with physical and respiratory problems and “abandoned by the Lombard health system.”
THE LETTER:
I am the daughter of a 55-year-old woman from Bergamo without pathologies who, unfortunately, in March 2020 was hospitalized in an emergency in intensive care due to Covid.
Since that day, my mother’s life has never been the same. After 8 long days in intensive care, she was hospitalized for another 2 weeks in the hospital in Brescia. Doctors saved her life, but it has since been forgotten by the Lombard health system.
Six months have passed since the hospitalization and my mother still has serious physical and respiratory problems today. Shortness of breath, difficulty even doing crafts at home and climbing stairs. Cough that has come back every month for 5 months, but may you have to wait until July 2021 to get a pulmonary exam? Yes, because that was the answer that the Bergamo hospital gave my mother.
All patients who have had Covid are entitled to the D97 exemption for all post-covid follow-up visits until December 2020, but does my mother have to wait until July next year to visit? Isn’t a short-term visit to a person who has been in intensive care worth it? Where is the Lombard health care that helps those who risked dying a few months ago and who after months of ‘healing’ still have serious difficulties living the old life?
I inform you that my mother has already moved in privately for some verification visits, which for some reason gave availability for 2 days later, but at this point what is the Covid exemption?
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