There is an emergency meeting Tuesday afternoon between the seven pediatric CI academic hospitals.
The Children’s IC of the Groningen Academic Hospital is extremely busy with seriously ill children due to the so-called RS virus, the IC has been expanded by four places. All pediatric intensive care units in Dutch hospitals are full of young children who have severe respiratory problems due to the RS virus.
In most children, the cold virus passes without problems, 1 in 100 newborns end up in hospital and 1 in 1,000 in pediatric intensive care.