LCK In The News

“We had to leave the country to access care for my son, which I just don’t think is acceptable.
What I’m finding the hardest is just feeling completely abandoned by the Government in terms of them providing any services for my children.”

"Victoria’s symptoms persisted for weeks, then months... The silver lining is finding Long COVID Kids and the support they have been able to offer and the support I’ve been able to give,” says Sarah"

Long Covid Kids Scotland, which represents and supports children and young people living with the effects of coronavirus, told Health Minister Humza Yousaf, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton and Labour Deputy Leader Jackie Baillie that ‘enough is enough’. The group want more resources and a strategy to improve care for the 10,000 children estimated to be living with the illness.

The mother of an 11-year-old girl with long Covid says she just wants her daughter back to her normal, active self.
Freya, from North Yorkshire, says she feels tired all the time and gets headaches, backaches and rashes and has to use a wheelchair.

Two years ago Jasmine Marwick was a healthy 16-year-old who loved swimming and doing her make-up.
Now, she manages to leave the house once a week to sit in a cafe or do food shopping - if she can lean on the trolley. Her parents are frustrated by the lack of awareness and treatment.
Long Covid Kids Scotland said the condition is often disbelieved by medical professionals. That urgently needs to change, says lead representative Helen Goss.