Yet Minister Vandenbroucke also has little understanding for the announcement by UZ Gent yesterday not to keep beds free for corona patients in intensive care. “I understand the frustration in the hospitals, it is great and it is extremely hard. But the reaction in Ghent offers no prospects, because the Covid patients will come, if you do not reserve beds, the Covid patients will soon be on the hallway.”
“It’s not that we say: give priority to Covid patients, you have to make sure that you have space and that you leave care that is not urgent with others. That is a very painful and annoying decision, but the alternative is that those Covid patients will soon be in the hallway. The agreements we are talking about were made by the hospital sector itself, if they do not do it together, the system will collapse. Ghent is rather uncollegial, is also correct. If all hospitals reacted as they do in Ghent now, our system will collapse next week.”
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