Dr. John Lambert:

I think that is it. These infections affect many different organ systems. The issue is that I have letters of referral in for health care workers, for example, who have gone to cardiologists, neurologists, pulmonologists and gastroenterologists because all of their different organs have been affected. They all have a solution that is putting a band-aid on that part of their body, but that is not the issue. The issue is that we need to bring it all together. The patients are not benefiting from shopping from one place to another and it is hugely expensive. It is expensive if the State is paying for all these tests. I can give the Chair reports of patients who have had probably €3,000 worth of tests done and no findings. Patients are sometimes paying for those tests out of pocket and sometimes they have been paid for by the Government. We need to relook at our strategy going forward. Things have changed since March 2020 when Covid came along. We knew much in March 2021 about the effects on the brain. Here we are in 2022 and we have to put together a new plan based on this new evidence, regroup and better engage the GPs and give them guidance on how to manage these patients.