General practitioner and coordinator at Care4Neo Sylvia Obermann advocates a National Expertise Center for Early Birth. GPs who have patients who were born prematurely often do not know this. Such a National Expertise Center could work with this complex matter and make healthcare more efficient. People will then be sent from pillar to post less. This is reported by EenVandaag.
Doctors do not link complaints such as kidney problems or high blood pressure to premature birth, even though they may be related. And then there are the many different complaints that premature birth can cause. “It is impossible for GPs to keep such a complicated file,” says Obermann. As a general practitioner, she has deepened her knowledge, but only because she herself is the mother of a premature child.
Prevention
An Expertise Center can also contribute to more happening in the field of prevention. Because there’s a higher chance of kidney damage, for example, you can prevent worse by making changes to your lifestyle, says Obermann. But then people need to know this in time and not just when they go to the doctor with kidney damage.
By: National Care Guide / Johanne Levinsky
