"Could Invest One Billion": Lauterbach Accuses Government of Exhaustion Syndrome Me/cfs Failure

Der Tagesspiegel

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Hundreds of thousands suffer from ME/CFS. The disease is little researched. The coalition's only plan for up to 15 million euros is frantic to the ex-health minister. He sees promises broken.

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Since the Coronapandemie, many more people have suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome. Berlin is currently arguing about whether this is necessary for research of 10 or 15 million euros. Ex-Minister of Health Lauterbach considers at least one billion necessary and reports on desperate patients.

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Since Corona many people have suffered from the chronic illness ME/CFS. Here ex-health minister Lauterbach talks about his own mistakes and explains why the case of a young woman is particularly close to him.

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For Karl Lauterbach, this is a state failure: he considers the ignorance of the women's health crisis to be a scandal.Myalgic encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – in short: ME/CFS – is a chronic disease characterized by stress-independent exhaustion, sleep disorders, concentration problems, circulatory disorders and pain. Particularly serious: women suffer significantly more frequently than men. However, many of the people affected do no…

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Former Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) accuses the federal government of failing to research chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). "The sums currently allocated in the budget are completely unacceptable," Lauterbach told Der Spiegel magazine. "This urgently needs to be improved." According to estimates, the number of people affected by ME/CFS has almost doubled since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, to 650,000. The coalition of the…