Chennai: Covid-19 has been a new and strange infectious disease, unlike no other, that came to wage a different kind of war on us. Many of us fell. But an equal number have been left as the ‘Walking Wounded’.
They survived Covid, some had only developed mild Covid or even escaped any symptoms at all, but Covid did leave its mark on them, deep, damaging, and disabling.
A constellation of symptoms bothered you; you felt fatigued, there were body ache, head ache and joint pains, you felt dizzy and there was a ā fog’ in the brain all the time which affected sleep, memory and concentration. You felt chest pain, palpitations and breathlessness, appetite was poor and so was smell, and you felt anxious and depressed.
It was difficult to make someone, even the near and dear, forget the folks at the place of work, that you had ānot got your life back’. That misery acquired a short name āLong Covid!’
In this scenario, HAMSA Rehabilitation Centre has said it rose to the challenge and marshalled an army of rehabilitation professionals qualified, trained and experienced in healing a wounded mind and body.
A joint project of Kauvery Hospital Chennai and Dr G Balamurali, the centre said it re-incarnated as a post-Covid and Long Covid rehabilitation centre.