‘Disbelief and worries’, documentary Resilience shows how Udens hospital fights against corona spikes

Actually, the Cromvoirt director Marc Pos would bring the Eurovision Song Contest on TV this year. At the end of February he already sensed that corona would draw a line and he decided to register the first corona wave from the Bernhoven Hospital in Uden. “I wanted to make images of something that could possibly have a historical meaning. I have always found it a shame that there are few images of the 1953 flood.”

Marc followed the nursing staff and the patients brought in closely. “I thought it would all be over by July. Then it would be a nice document of what it was like. I did not expect that we would still be so busy with corona in mid-September.”

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The images that start just before Brabant experiences its corona peak are moving. The documentary is called Resilience and can now be seen on Videoland. “Resilience refers to the staff that you see working so hard and who are also emotionally affected. An endless stream of patients who succumb to the new virus before their eyes. In addition, the name also refers to the patients and their families who are en masse. end up on an unexpected emotional rollercoaster. So many times they have to say goodbye without knowing if they will still see each other alive. ”

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Director Marc thinks it is important that people watch his documentary right now. “It shows how it was. We sometimes seem to forget that now that the IC images are lagging behind the ever-increasing number of infections. It’s not the flu. I want to understand the staff. Show why they are tired.”

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Marc himself also knows very well how people initially walked around him in Hilversum. “As soon as I mentioned that I am from Brabant, you saw their eyes grow into saucers. In some places I was not even welcome because of my hometown. That seems a long time ago and it makes a difference that the whole of the Netherlands has been sighing under the corona measures for months now. But this was the beginning, we must not forget that. “

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Omroep Brabant also made a documentary about corona from the Elisabeth TweeSteden Hospital: Tested positive.

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