The netherlands have a look at how in the future there will be as flexible as possible, able to be scaled up in the intensive care unit (icu). That said, the minister of Health, Hugo Young, Saturday night at the 1 where he was a guest to look back on the past few months, while the coronacrisis in the Netherlands.
During the first four months of the end of the COVID-19-the virus, it was found that there is a shortage of icu beds are threatened in the Netherlands. The normal capacity of 1,150 beds, and was in a very short time scale up to 2400.
According to the minister, The Young, the lesson of the case is to be drawn is that there is no permanent, large-scale exploitation to take place in the future, but it needs to be looked at, and how to be as flexible as possible and can be scaled up, and without regular care, including suffering.
Due to the scale-up required a lot of regular treatments in the last months of the year are to be deferred. According to the minister, it was the denial of this care is “very intriguing”.
For the Young, it is, however, pleased with the realization of which may be found at the coronacrisis. “As long as the pressure is really increasing, there’s never a lot more as possible. At first it was one thousand five hundred (icu bed) really is the maximum, and more than that, we couldn’t really. When it became clear that the scale of 2,400 however, is also possible. The max. there are actually two needed,” he said.
The Young: People to a hundred and icu beds
Though an integrated capacity of 2,400 in the future will not be necessary, according to Young, he has the ability to be scaled up to the top of the normal 1.150. The basic capacity to 1.350 in. After that, it would continue to be scaled up to a hundred and icu beds in the room.
Young said that he did not comply with decisions of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Intensive Care (NVIC), which for seventeen hundred is too much. “If we find ourselves in each and every manifestation of something that is not going to make it down we will, of course, nothing, so we need to look at what is the right way.” However, he acknowledges that there are serious questions about it. “But in the end you will, however, be sufficiently flexible to your opschaalt when it’s needed,” says Young.
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