a premier healthcare facility in the UAE in association with ARISE UAE launched the Middle East's first ever comprehensive 'Online COVID-19 Rehabilitation Program', which will be offered to patients suffering from long COVID symptoms, completely free of cost. ARISE, the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies, is a network of private sector entities led by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 rehabilitation improves the health prospects of COVID-19 patients through optimizing health and functioning outcomes, facilitating early discharge and reducing the risk of re-admission.
After acute COVID-19 illness, recovered patients often continue to complain of chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, stress and anxiety, fatigue, body ache, cough, sore throat, difficulty in breathing, etc. Emerging evidence indicates that a majority of people who require hospitalization for COVID- 19 experience sequelae such as fatigue and shortness of breath in the months following their hospital discharge. Studies have also shown that the COVID causing SARS-COV-2 virus is likely to linger in the body, for many months. These problems have been described as 'Long COVID'.
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