That’s what doctors say in the AD. “The wave will not be as big as it is now, but corona will return in winter”, says Hans Kuidsen, intensivist at the Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital in Tilburg. Kuijsters is thinking of a system where people can work as ‘reservists’ on the ic in the winter. “You have to go to seasonal workers in healthcare.”
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Another idea is to create a backup IC, says Peter van der Voort, head of intensive care at UMC Groningen. “In normal times you can use it for something else, but when the need arises, as an IC. For that you need a flexible layer of staff that also has an IC basis.”
Flu season minor crisis
In fact, every flu season is already a small crisis in the hospital, says intensivist in Bernhoven in Uden Simone Gielen to the newspaper. “I expect you to get a wave with Covid and influenza.”
Hospitals already have their hands full with the second corona wave. There are more new corona patients in the hospital every day, according to data from the NICE Foundation yesterday.
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In the past week, an average of 193 new patients entered the nursing ward. The weekday average was 184 the day before yesterday. That is an increase in the influx of almost 5 percent.
Intensive care
The number of new patients is also increasing in intensive care. On average, 32 new patients arrived every day last week.
The cabinet hopes with the lockdown measures to reduce the influx to 10 new patients per day as soon as possible. The effect of those measures should be visible later. So there is still an upward trend for the time being.
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