Outgoing Minister of Health Ernst Kuipers Interview on Post-COVID Treatments and Funding in the Netherlands

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Amber in conversation with outgoing Minister of Health Ernst Kuipers

Outgoing Minister of Health Ernst Kuipers will not release money for treatment centers and treatments for post-COVID patients. He says this in an interview with the television program Box (BNNVARA), which pays extensive attention to the disease in the broadcast of Saturday, December 9 (7:15 PM, NPO2), in which around 90,000 Dutch people suffer from very serious complaints.

According to Kuipers, it is still too early for reimbursement for treatments that have not been scientifically tested. Kuipers believes there are still too many risks involved and wants more research first. He realizes that this is a very hard message for the 450,000 patients who are struggling with post-COVID, 90,000 of whom have very serious complaints. There is currently no treatment available for them at all.

Minister Kuipers: “More research needed”

The outgoing minister emphasizes that post-COVID concerns long-term complaints, the exact origins of which we do not understand, have no intervention points and do not yet have any medicinal treatment. And so more research is needed first.

Kuipers: “That is extremely frustrating for patients, I recognize that very well. But at the same time it helps to tell the honest story. And that is that if you do not have all those points for this complaint, then you will investigate it. must do.”

Results are being achieved in Germany, why not in the Netherlands?

The policy of outgoing Minister Kuipers differs from that in Germany. 109 state-funded, special post-COVID clinics have been set up there. Results are already being achieved there and experiments are being conducted with existing treatments and medications, such as Prednisone.

In many cases this will be reimbursed. Germany states that the pandemic is not over until post-COVID is over.

Patient organization furious: “Patients can’t wait”

Director Diewke De Haen of patient organization PostCovidNL reacts furiously to the minister: “These patients cannot wait five years until thoroughly proven treatment methods are available. We must now apply what we already know. This concerns, for example, medication that has already been proven effective and safe for other diseases. The Netherlands must follow the German example as quickly as possible.”

“The Netherlands has a different vision”

The Netherlands has a different view, says Kuipers. He puts the ball in the court of the hospitals that have the budget for this. If they want to start experimental treatments, they will have to finance this from their own resources and the patient will have to agree in advance to the risks involved.

Minister Kuipers adds that patients can simply visit their GP, physiotherapist or medical specialist.

Kassa can be seen on Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 7:15 PM on NPO2

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