“I now often work from a sports hall in Schiedam. A special GP station has been set up for this region to treat all people who may be infected with corona. The number of people who report to us with respiratory complaints with this suspicion is increasing, but we expect an even larger group later.
There are tents in the sports hall in which we treat the patients. We have set a green and a red zone. In the red zone, people who are already in worse shape. Everything in that tent must be disinfected after every patient. We do that ourselves. I can tell you that the alcohol flows freely – cleaning alcohol, that is.
What I notice here is that some people get sick faster and their condition can deteriorate very quickly. That worries me. For example, we saw here a young man who came in with mild respiratory complaints in the evening, but was still in the hospital on the same night. So it can go that fast. I notice that it makes me a little nervous.
It seems like a very sneaky disease. By that I mean that we normally say quickly with a respiratory infection: ‘take it easy or take a cure’. But that is no longer possible; with corona you see in some of the patients that you have to ring the bell much faster. As general practitioners, we must be particularly attentive to this.
Given the experiences I have now, I therefore emphatically say: ‘call us’. Even without a fever and if you do not belong to the risk group. You don’t have to relieve us, just call. Also call back to tell how your condition develops. It is really important. Every IC recording we prevent with it is worth gold.
This is also where the importance of testing comes into play. If we could test here in the sports hall who actually has corona and who has the normal flu, we can monitor those people much more specifically.
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