Hospitals must immediately postpone all non-urgent procedures by 2 weeks to make beds available

“It is important that hospitals be able to fully expand the capacity that we are asking them in the current phase 1B (keep half of all ICU beds free for covid patients). for example, transfer operating theaters or recovery rooms to the intensive care units.”

“If that staff is working in intensive care, we can no longer guarantee the quality of operating theatres. That is why we are asking that activities there be reduced to a minimum for the next two weeks, with immediate effect. completely different from previous waves.”

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