C-support and PostCovid NL jointly inform hard-to-reach target groups about Long COVID
According to the latest research*, 1 in 8 people suffer from long-term complaints as a result of COVID-19, which is called Long COVID or Post-COVID syndrome. This means that a large group of Dutch people suffer from long-term complaints after a corona infection. More than 23.000 Long COVID patients have now found C-support for aftercare and support for their complaints. This group mainly consists of (digitally) language-savvy Dutch people, 70% of whom are women aged 40-60.
A large group including people with a migration background, low-literates, people with disabilities, the elderly and young people, are unable or hardly able to find aftercare organisation C-support and patient organisation PostCovid NL. That is why these two organisations have joined forces to make an effort to inform these groups about Long COVID.
What is Long COVID?
People with a migration background, low literacy or a disability may have difficulty understanding what Long COVID is. What kind of complaints this can cause. And where they can find help and/or peer contact if they suffer from long-term complaints after corona. That is why C-support and PostCovid NL have worked together in recent months to bring about change in this.
“We want to ensure that information about Long COVID reaches the capillaries of society so that people with a migration background and/or low literacy can find the right path to help.”
Free information and help
All people who have long-term complaints after a corona infection have access to (free) information, help and support. C-support and PostCovid NL were both set up by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to provide help to Long COVID patients. C-support offers tailor-made aftercare for medical, psychosocial and work and income questions. And PostCovid NL has advocacy, digital information and organizing peer contact among its tasks.
Specially developed information material
So from now on there is www.c-support.nu/talen information about Long COVID in no less than 11 different languages, interpreters are available at C-support to assist people in their own language and information material has been developed for people with low literacy. In addition, a campaign is being launched among intermediate target groups such as community workers, care providers at VluchtelingenWerk and primary care providers to ask for extra attention for the re- and recognition of Long COVID among these specific groups.
*Source: https://www.umcg.nl/s/onderzoek-langdurig-klachten-corona
