This Easter weekend, a total of twenty Dutch doctors and nurses will go to Curaçao to help the hospitals with corona care. They will also support the local GGD to increase the vaccination rate, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport reports.
To quickly expand those vaccinations, about 30,000 doses were flown in from the Netherlands on Friday. State Secretary Blokhuis says it is quite something “to take the plunge so quickly to pause your life in the Netherlands and help people on Curaçao in difficult circumstances”.
In addition to nurses, doctors and vaccines, the Netherlands also sends medical equipment, including respirators. “It feels to me like an act of charity that so many nurses and doctors are doing this during these Easter days. I wish everyone a lot of strength and strength with the intensive work ahead of them,” said Blokhuis.
‘Contribute’
One of the doctors who go to Curaçao is Stijn Kluft. He says he wants to contribute because of the crisis situation on the island. “They can use all the help there,” he says before departure at Schiphol. He goes to work at the GGD. “But I have a flexible contract, so I can also work in the hospital. It’s just where they need me.”
Just before departure, he suffers from healthy tension:
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