A GP has told Sky News how she lost her job and thought she was going to lose her house after the condition caused her to take six months off work.
Doctors who contracted COVID-19 on the frontline and are still living with the ongoing symptoms of the virus have been left in financial limbo as they struggle to return to work.had been forced to stop work or significantly cut back on their hours.She contracted COVID-19 in April 2020 but her symptoms persisted and snowballed.
"I had headaches and I had a daily fever for seven months. I still get fevers very easily if my kids catch colds. I had tinnitus, I had awful aches and pains in my body, I was so breathless I couldn't walk up the stairs without stopping once or twice for many months." "It was devastating, my husband also had long COVID, at the time that I lost my job his pay was halving, my roof was leaking, I had to pay for a kid in full-time nursery and we risked losing everything at that point. I thought we were going to lose our house, we were really facing really really challenging times."The BMA surveyed some 600 doctors, with 48% saying they've experienced loss of earnings as a result of long COVID symptoms.
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