Hospitals in the Netherlands faced a lack of places for patients with coronavirus, and the sick COVID-19 began to send for treatment to Germany. About it reports The Guardian.
The first patients were sent on Tuesday, November 23, from Rotterdam to German City Bochum.
It is noted that the rate of occupancy of hospitals in the Netherlands has reached the highest level since May this year.
According to European media, many medical institutions in the Netherlands reduce the number of places for patients with oncology and cardiovascular diseases and are retracted for the treatment of coronavirus. In the country, as in a number of other European countries, in recent weeks there is an increase in the number of infected.
On the eve of the Netherlands, where the weekend passed protests against the introduction of COVID passes, more than 23 thousand cases of the virus were identified during the day, which was almost 1.5 thousand exceeded the average for the last week.