The most important task of Moscow healthcare in the coming years will be comprehensive rehabilitation and prevention of complications in people who have had COVID-19, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in his blog on July 27.
He supported the chief doctor of the State Clinical Hospital No. 52, Maryana Lysenko, who, shortly before the meeting with candidates for deputies of the State Duma, explained that the disease often results in long-term health problems in people who recovered from it, including the working-age population.
Sobyanin did not specify who was supposed to be eligible for such rehabilitation and what the planned funding for this medical service may be. According to the mayor, work on the provision of rehabilitation will have to start after the COVID-19 incidence decreases.
The Mayor of Moscow also recalled that a program of in-depth medical examination initiated by the president is offered to citizens who have had COVID-19 and suffer from chronic diseases; the program started in the Russian regions on July 1.
Earlier, it became known that the government will also allocate more than 5.8 billion rubles to the regions for conducting in-depth medical examinations of citizens who have recovered from the novel coronavirus.