Manitoba woman seeking help for long COVID finds hope at Alberta clinic
A spokesperson for the provincial health organization said patients with long COVID can see a health-care provider, such as a family physician, and be referred to specialists or existing clinics if needed.. That program does see long COVID patients, though they must fit its criteria.Dr. Candace Bradshaw, president of Doctors Manitoba, says a long COVID clinic is needed to meet the needs of patients in Manitoba.
"You have one chart in one place where everybody who's involved in your care can see the updates on what's going on," she said, explaining that information can then get sent back to the family physician.Dr. Neeja Bakshi is the internal medicine physician who runs the long COVID clinic just outside Edmonton that Nickel visited in May.
"It allows for the patient to feel like they are part of a system rather than having a piecemeal approach," she said. Bakshi believes in the months and years to come there will be a significant amount of disability and debilitation from long COVID — something suggested by the number of forms she's already filling out about a patient's ability to return to work, or need for modified duties.