New Post-Covid Ward for Children Opens in Munich

Bavaria's Minister of Health, Judith Gerlach, has opened a new post-COVID ward at the Schwabing Children's Hospital in Munich. The ward is intended to improve the care of children and adolescents with long-term effects of COVID-19. The project was supported with over 1.2 million euros as part of the "Post-COVID Kids Bavaria 2.0" funding program. Bavaria's Minister of Science, Markus Blume, emphasized that long-term COVID is disrupting the daily …

DMZ – POLICY ¦ Lena Wallner ¦ Munich – They were sporty, active, full of joie de vivre. Then Covid-19 – sometimes mild, sometimes symptomless – came back a paralysing exhaustion. More and more children, adolescents and young adults struggle with persistent complaints after an infection with the Coronavirus. Diagnosis: Long Covid – and often in particularly severe manifestation with the chronic Fatigue syndrome ME/CFS (Myalgic encephalomyelitis/C…