Speakers of the Congress of Family Physicians ask for resources and a program to combat persistent coronavirus – Society

Speakers at a national congress held by the Spanish Society of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (SEMG) called for funding as well as the development of a specific program to combat persistent coronavirus.

“Recognizing pathology,” said Sonia Villapol, a neuroscientist and professor at the Center for Neuroregeneration and Department of Neurosurgery at Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute, who warned the media that there were cases that were not related. with this covid, although they exist.

In the same spirit, Pilar Rodríguez Ledo, president of the Spanish Research Network on Persistent Covid (REiCOP), emphasized the importance of “making these cases visible”, but above all, providing funding.

“There is no specific money for this, and researchers are begging for it under pressure from patients; there is not enough of it.” “Spain must invest in a special program in this area of ​​work,” he emphasized.

She also called for professional involvement in addressing what Sonia Villapol called “a very troubling global public health problem.”

“This means better diagnosis and treatment,” he said, explaining that these need to be recognized “as symptoms associated with infection” and then “applied with the correct diagnoses” and available treatments.

MENTAL HEALTH

The congress, which ends this Saturday at the Palacio delle Coruna (Palecsco), will also discuss mental health and its impact on groups such as young people.

In this regard, Antonio Torres, head of the working group on mental health of the Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians (SEMG), warned that “patterns of use and abuse, as well as overdose of substances that we do not know about, that are recorded: “They are not even filtered as dangerous.”

“They are ahead of medical and scientific knowledge, some of them are old friends, but the process of adulteration creates a high risk for citizens,” he said, citing the example of pink cocaine and warning of the risks associated with its use in a call for awareness and prevention in this issue.