An ICU boss in the hardest-hit part of Italy says many patients who recover from COVID-19 still have 'chronic damage'

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  • The head of ICU at a hospital in Bergamo, northern Italy, said many patients there who were treated for COVID-19 now have serious long-term health issues.
  • Bergamo was the worst-hit area in Italy's worst-hit region, Lombardy. Some 3,000 people died in Bergamo, with the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in the thick of it.
  • In March, images from a shocking Sky News report from inside the overwhelmed ICU were seen around the world.
  • Dr Roberto Cosentini, the head of the ICU, told Sky News this week that "a significant proportion of the population" have "chronic damage from the virus" after recovery.
  • He did not specify how many were affected. Several studies have noted problems in patients who had COVID-19, but
  • Cosentini said it's clear the virus affects a number of organs, including the kidneys and the brain, not just the lungs.
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The head of intensive care at a hospital in Northern Italy that was in the center of the country's outbreak says COVID-19 patients there have been left with serious health issues that may never go away.

Dr Roberto Cosentini, the head of the emergency department at Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Lombardy, told Sky News "we see a significant proportion of the population with chronic damage from the virus."

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