Moreover, there is a second consideration, says Cloet: “In March we immediately decided to postpone all non-urgent interventions. That was defensible at the time: we did not know anything about the virus, we could barely test, we were actually blind. sailing. For example, in operations we saw a 77 percent decline in April compared to the previous year.
But in the meantime, the insight has grown that things must be different the next time: “We have learned that it is important to continue to carry out non-urgent procedures. A hospital is a safe environment, people should not be afraid to come by. Our oncologists said that they suddenly saw people with cancers that they had never seen, because those people had waited too long to come to the hospital. ” As a result, according to Cloet, hospitals are still struggling with a backlog of procedures that still have to be performed.
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