Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 8:45 PM
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ZZG care group from Groesbeek has independent research carried out into what happened in residential care center Mookerhof. This nursing home in Mook was evacuated because many employees are ill due to a major outbreak of the corona virus.
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The newly opened residential care center had ‘to do with a large and early infection source’ of the coronavirus, ZZG care group reports Tuesday. That is why ‘the difficult and emotional decision’ was made to move the 24 demented old residents. They have been received since Saturday in the so-called recovery center in Groesbeek.
On Monday evening, GP Marion de Bruin and columnist Marcel van Roosmalen appeared in a TV broadcast of On 1 question the actions of the residential care center, where their father and mother are housed respectively. For example, De Bruin said that staff walked around in ‘a kind of butcher apron and with a baggy mask on’. She could also just walk through to her father’s apartment, which is infected with the corona virus.
‘Quality of care not up to standard’
In response to that broadcast, the ZZG care group says that ‘despite great efforts by all employees involved, the quality of care and communication in Mookerhof was unable to maintain the level under particularly difficult circumstances’. According to a spokesperson, the focus was initially on the evacuation.
Six residents and 20 of the 34 employees tested positive for corona. The research must show, among other things, how the virus could spread so widely in the brand new building.
Mookerhof is one of the 26 care locations of the ZZG care group. Other locations are located in Nijmegen, Berg en Dal and Wijchen, among others.
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