MANILA, Philippines — A senior administration official on Thursday said government is exploring a mental care program for COVID-19 survivors, saying post-recovery struggles for those infected have been a serious problem. In a Palace briefing, Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the national task force against COVID-19, said trauma for patients has remained high, more than a year into the pandemic. "We will have an elaborate..social healing and mental care to have what we call reconstruction and reconstitution," he said in Filipino. Galvez added that they are in talks with experts for this, as part of the government's National Action Plan. It was the largest global study done so far on how being infected affects the individual's mental wellbeing, with 230,000 patients.

Source: Philippine Star April 29, 2021 12:33 UTC