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Hello everyone, i lived and worked in De Netherlands for over 10 years but now live back in the uk.
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GE has 433 deaths at this moment, NL has 639….think about that. But on the other hand GE has almost 84 million people, NL little over 17 million. The ratio cases/deaths is high due to minimal testing and testing only critical cases (leaving aside hospital staff). They don’t really track the people that recover, but that’s sloppy if people have been treated in a hospital (don’t they keep track of the people discharged?).
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They were very eager to put him out of misery instead of trying treatment, he was not even 80. They do stretch the meaning of palliative care in this country, I saw this with my father in law couple years ago. Two times I have had to go back to my own country (Chile) for testing and treatment since my own experience here is that they are behind not only in knowledge about medicine but also equipment.Īnd what I read recently about doctors thinking about asking older corona patients if they want care in a hospital or at home…that’s basically asking them if they rather stay home and just die since they are old and ill. Also, to my knowledge -I’ve lived in this country for 31 years), the healthcare system here is subpar to Germany and Belgium (I’ve chosen from the beginning to compare NL to its neighbours since there should be more similarities than discrepancies, you would think). Nowadays, if you want to talk about it percentage-wise, it comes down to amount of testing and ICU beds (Germany has 29.2 per 100.000 inhabitants and the Netherlands only 6.4) and GE still tests as much as possible and NL, already for almost 2 weeks, mainly the very sick and very old. I follow the same site and I’ve been wondering something similar since almost 3 weeks ago and that is the difference in cases vs mortality in NL compared to Belgium and Germany.