The RAK Hospital and UNDRR – ARISE (UAE), post COVID-19 recovery & rehabilitation program is provided as complementary, free of charge program to all COVID-19 recovering patients

After acute COVID-19 illness, recovered patients may continue to complain of chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, stress and anxiety, fatigue, body ache, cough, sore throat, difficulty in breathing, etc. Emerging evidence indicates that a majority of people who require hospitalization for COVID- 19 experience sequelae such as fatigue and shortness of breath in the months following their hospital discharge. Studies have shown that COVID causing SARS-COV-2 virus is likely to linger in the body, for many months. These problems have been described as "long COVID".

RAK Hospital introduced its post COVID recovery rehabilitation program in October 2020. This program is managed by our multi-disciplinary team of Physician, Physiotherapist, Nutritionist and Psychologist. In order to extend our reach to larger communities and wider geographies and to support the community in the comfort of their homes, we created our online COVID Rehab product which assesses the recoverring COVID patients medical details, test results, co morbidities, symptoms, etc. and instantly makes available a comprehensive online COVID rehab health prescription for speedy recovery covering all areas including Medical, Exercise Activity, Nutrition & Diet, Dependency Management and Stress, and Mental wellbeing.

RAK Hospital has partnered with ARISE, UAE to launch Middle East’s first ever comprehensive ‘Online COVID-19 Rehabilitation Program’, which will be offered to patients suffering from long COVID symptoms, completely free of cost. ARISE, the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies, is a network of private sector entities led by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).