Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert

Dr. John Lambert:

I really do not know. As I am a medical doctor, I do not get involved in those decisions. I am always hopeful that my patients will improve. Usually if people are pushed back into the workforce they crash and they are back to square one. I always say if patients are improving, they really need six months of rehabilitation. I keep on extending patients' time by six months. In those six months some of them are ready to go back to work, which is really good news, but some of them are not. It should not be a permanent condition because, as I said, it is an unknown entity.

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