Four more academic hospitals to open centers that provide specialized Long Covid care

Another four academic hospitals will open a special expertise center for people with lengthy complaints that have occurred as a result of a Covid-19 infection. The first three centers opened in November last year in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Maastricht. The next specialized center will open on June 1 in the Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC).

On July 1, the UMC Groningen (UMCG) will also open a Long-COVID expertise center. The RadboudUMC in Nijmegen will follow this on September 1, and then the UMC Utrecht will open its expertise center.

The Nederlandse Federatie van Universitair Medische Centra (NFU), the interest organization for the seven university medical centers in the country, announced the plans on Tuesday. The NFU said that this is “good news for patient care and the development of knowledge.”

The temporary centers are financed until the end of 2026. They are meant to offer specialized care to patients and to accelerate the gathering of knowledge and experience. “We are using this to look into which care would suit various patients the most.”