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'I should have been called for emergency Covid medicine within 24 hours - but the system is so backlogged it took FOUR days'
08.04.2022 - 08:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Vulnerable people are waiting days for emergency Covid medicine when they should be contacted within 24 hours, a patient said. The 37-year-old dad from Heaton Chapel claims he was forced to chase the treatment multiple times after reporting his positive test to the NHS on the same day.
The Covid Medicine Delivery Unit is meant to start contacting patients to arrange the vital treatment ‘within 24 hours’ of a clinically vulnerable person reporting a positive Covid test, according to the NHS. The medicine should then be provided shortly afterwards, with the NHS website reading that 'these free treatments need to be given quickly after infection'. But the patient who spoke to the M.E.N., on the condition of anonymity, said he didn't get a call from a clinician to get the ball rolling until four days later.
The 37-year-old says he tested positive on March 30. The delays left this patient questioning the effectiveness of the system, while he says the medics he spoke to chasing the treatment reported massive backlogs within the Covid Medicine Delivery Unit (CMDU), causing treatment to stall.
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Diagnosed with Crohn's, an inflammatory bowel disease which sees him take immune system-suppressing medication, the dad's clinically vulnerable status qualifies him for early antiviral treatment supplied by the unit. The antiviral treatment is intended to limit the severe impacts that Covid can wage on those with compromised immune systems.
“Months ago, I had contacted my GP to work out the route to getting early treatment if I did become positive," he told the M.E.N. "They told me that they would refer me to the Covid Medicine Delivery
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