Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that these post-acute and long Covid clinics are being established, but we have been a long time waiting for that. I was promised last September that they would be put in place. We are being told that, until they are put in place at hospital level, there will not be a network back to the GPs.

The Minister has provided advice this morning that people experiencing long Covid should go to their GPs. GPs are overwhelmed and it is impossible to get an appointment. When someone goes to a GP, the GP does not have the data. When the GP sends someone for a test, the test is not showing any indication of long Covid. There is not a proper referral pathway into the acute hospital system, and even when people get into it, there is no testing or procedure in place. The clinics are only available in a handful of hospital settings.

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