Post-covid income: where and for how much the consequences of coronavirus are treated

According to Rospotrebnadzor, about a third of people who have recovered from CORONAVIRUS experience post-COVID syndrome. Assistance in rehabilitation has become one of the main new directions for private clinics and sanatoriums in St. Petersburg; demand for certain “post-COVID” destinations increased 4.5 times. About how much private medicine earns in the treatment of the consequences of coronavirus, and what urban healthcare offers patients - in the material of RBC Petersburg.

What does the state do

Post-covid syndrome is a generalized diagnosis that can include a variety of consequences of a coronavirus infection. Among the main symptoms with which recovered patients turn to doctors are fatigue, increased anxiety and irritability, memory impairment, shortness of breath, blood pressure disorders and other cardiovascular complications; exacerbation of chronic diseases.

According to Smolny, by August 2021, 5.2 thousand Petersburgers had undergone rehabilitation after coronavirus in city hospitals. Patients for rehabilitation treatment are admitted to the City Hospital No. 40, the Hospital for War Veterans, the City Multidisciplinary Hospital No. 2, and the Mariinsky Hospital. The total capacity of post-COVID rehabilitation departments is 240 beds. In hospitals, patients receive physiotherapy, kinesiotherapy (a variant of exercise therapy), respiratory rehabilitation, and assistance in psychological recovery.

Post-covid rehabilitation is also carried out in a day hospital and on an outpatient basis. In St. Petersburg, the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution of Healthcare "Consultative and Diagnostic Center No. 1" and 34 district polyclinics specialize in this. According to the press service of the government of St. Petersburg, about 1.1 thousand patients can undergo rehabilitation treatment in day hospitals per month and more than 1.8 thousand people can undergo rehabilitation treatment on an outpatient basis.

What and how much the market offers

it should be noted that in St. Petersburg during the pandemic period, according to the Stopcoronavirus.rf website, 557,993 cases of covid-19 were detected . Taking into account the earlier statement by the DIRECTOR of the V. A. Almazov National Medical Research Center Yevgeny Shlyakhto that in the city 10% of those who have recovered from covid have post-covid syndrome, about 57 thousand St. Petersburg residents may need rehabilitation. Thus, the capabilities of public HEALTH institutions do not close the entire demand for post-COVID rehabilitation.