{"id":6706,"date":"2024-08-08T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2024-08-08T22:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T02:47:06","slug":"hundreds-of-long-covid-sufferers-affected-as-ahs-abruptly-closes-outpatient-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/hundreds-of-long-covid-sufferers-affected-as-ahs-abruptly-closes-outpatient-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of long-COVID sufferers affected as AHS abruptly closes outpatient program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the feelings that 56-year-old Calgary grandmother Barbara Pencala was left with after she learned on Wednesday via email that Alberta Health Services (AHS) is concluding its long COVID Inter-Professional Outpatient Program (IPOP).<\/p>\n<p>The temporary initiative was set up in 2021 and was never meant to be permanent, but the news came as a surprise to hundreds of program patients, many of whom took to social media to express their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just felt standardized. Shocking, tears were streaming down my face as I was reading the email,\u201d Pencala told Global News when describing her reaction just hours earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the feelings that 56-year-old Calgary grandmother Barbara Pencala was left with after she learned on Wednesday via email that Alberta Health Services (AHS) is concluding its long COVID Inter-Professional Outpatient Program (IPOP).<\/p>\n<p>The temporary initiative was set up in 2021 and was never meant to be permanent, but the news came as a surprise to hundreds of program patients, many of whom took to social media to express their concerns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/hundreds-of-long-covid-sufferers-affected-as-ahs-abruptly-closes-outpatient-program\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hundreds of long-COVID sufferers affected as AHS abruptly closes outpatient program<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,316,96,18,11,937,14],"class_list":["post-6706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-health-services","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-long-covid-clinics","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6709,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}